Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years 10+ years

Education Not specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

This role involves leading the development of enterprise-scale, real-time trading systems with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and cloud deployment, leveraging streaming platforms and microservices architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Design enterprise-scale systems
Lead real-time trading platform development
Mentor engineering teams
Ensure system scalability and fault tolerance
Optimize cloud deployments

Technical Overview

The position requires expertise in Kafka, AWS, microservices, real-time data processing, and distributed databases, with a focus on high availability and low latency within a fintech environment.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior software engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing enterprise-scale, real-time, distributed systems using Kafka, AWS, and microservices architecture. They possess strong leadership skills and a strategic mindset.

Must-Have Skills

10+ years experience in software engineeringexperience designing enterprise-scale systemsknowledge of streaming platforms like Apache Kafkacloud experience (AWS preferred)

Nice-to-Have Skills

event-driven architecturereal-time order managementtrade execution systemsmulti-region cloud deploymentrelational and distributed database optimization

Tools & Platforms

Apache KafkaPostgreSQLRedisKafka StreamsAWS

Required Skills

Apache Kafkaevent sourcingdistributed streamingmicroservicesAPI designPostgreSQLRedisKafka StreamsAWSfault tolerancelow-latency performancehigh availability

Hard Skills

Apache Kafkaevent sourcingdistributed streamingmicroservicesAPI designPostgreSQLRedisKafka Streamscloud deploymentsAWSfault tolerancelow-latency performancehigh availability

Soft Skills

leadershipstrategic thinkingmentorshipcollaborationinnovationcommunication

Industry & Role

Industry Fintech

Job Function Architecting and leading real-time trading systems for TradeStation

Role Subtype Software Architect

Tech Domains Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Amazon Web Services, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Java

Keywords for Your Resume

software engineerenterprise architecturemicroservicesAPI designApache KafkaAWScloud deploymentreal-time systemstrade systemshigh availabilityfault tolerancelow latencydistributed systemsstreaming platformsPostgreSQLRedisKafka Streamsleadershipmentorship

Deal Breakers

Less than 10 years experience, Lack of experience with Kafka or cloud deployments, No leadership or mentorship experience

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