Backend Engineer

Description

What Sets Us Apart High standard of engineering quality.Solve unique scalability challenges.Learn how the US financial system works on the inside.High impact roles at a relatively small company for our user base.As a Backend Engineer you will Have a dedicated mentor in the first months who will review your code and help you get ramped up.Build, test, and release productfacing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements. These features could be related to market data, trading, accounting, authentication, or security.Design a solution with other engineers and the ops team to fix a scalability problem and then implement it.Work with our frontend team to fine tune our REST API.Collaborate with our data team to support millions of customers.Contribute to open source projects.Some skills we consider critical to being a Backend Engineer Solid understanding of relational databases and transactions.Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.Good intuition for REST API design.Intimate familiarity of Python/Django or Go is a plus.Core Tech Stack Python/Django, Go as the main languages and frameworks of choice.PostgreSQL as our primary data store.Redis and Memcached as our caching layer.Celery as our task queue using RabbitMQ.