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Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)
Not Another Headhunting CompanySingapore1 day ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
Our client is seeking a seasoned Backend Engineer to help build high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure to support our research, trading, and data pipelines. This role is crucial to enabling real-time data ingestion and processing workflows, and ensuring our systems can meet the demands of a high-uptime, low-latency trading environment.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the design and development of robust high-performance, cloud-native backend systems using Go that support real-time data processing and low-latency workflows
  • Drive engineering excellence through code quality, best practices, and mentorship of other team members
  • Work closely with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to understand system requirements and deliver performant solutions
  • Take ownership of production services, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance tuning. Optimize systems performance and ensure system stability, reliability, and security
  • Contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD improvements to support rapid deployment and operational agility
  • Conduct in-depth code reviews, lead technical discussions, and influence engineering culture and standards
  • Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and participate in code reviews and design discussions
  • Deploy and manage services leveraging cloud-native tools and best practices
  • Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production systems and be a part of the on-call incident response team in a high-uptime environment


What You Will Need

  • 5+ years of backend development experience, including 3+ years with Go in production-grade systems
  • Experience leading large-scale system design and mentoring engineers on engineering best practices
  • Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization in Go
  • Proven track record of designing and deploying microservice architectures in high-availability, high-throughput environments
  • Solid understanding of message queues, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing
  • Strong understanding of microservice architecture and REST/gRPC APIs
  • Strong understanding of networking data transmission protocols (TCP, UDP, WSS, etc.)
  • Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration engines (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes)
  • Proficiency with message brokers (e.g., Kafka) and distributed systems
  • Knowledge of data storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and time-series databases

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