Hybrid Senior Backend Developer – Trading Platform

at MyFundedFutures

• Job title: Senior Backend Developer – Trading Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Docker, Grafana, GRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Postgres, Prometheus, Redis, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dallas, United States

About the role

• Senior Backend Developer building and maintaining the trading platform backend infrastructure for My Funded Futures. Collaborating with engineers to deliver high-performance trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core trading infrastructure, including:
• Real-time order routing and execution services
• High-frequency market data processing and distribution
• WebSocket and gRPC APIs for real-time client communication
• Integration with trading partners and liquidity providers (CQG, Tradovate)
• Risk management and position tracking systems
• Account management and authentication services
• Event-driven services for trade lifecycle management
• Database queries and optimizations for high-volume transactional data
• Implement new features and services for the trading platform
• Optimize database queries and system performance for real-time market data
• Collaborate with frontend engineers on API design and data contracts
• Work with product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Debug complex distributed system issues across services
• Write comprehensive tests and maintain code quality standards
• Participate in code reviews focusing on performance and maintainability
• Contribute to technical documentation and runbooks

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Go and/or C#
• Strong understanding of concurrent programming and multithreading
• Experience building high-performance, low-latency systems
• Solid design pattern knowledge and clean code practices
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis
• Proficiency with Protobuf for service communication
• Experience with message streaming platforms (Kafka and/or NATS)
• Writing maintainable, well-documented, and testable code
• Strong understanding of:
• Memory management and performance optimization
• Connection pooling and resource management
• Event-driven and message-based architectures
• Experience building high-performance, data-intensive backend applications
• Comfortable working with:
• Large-scale real-time data streams (WebSocket, gRPC, REST APIs)
• Time-series data storage and querying
• Complex transactional workflows
• Previous work on trading platforms, financial applications, or similar real-time systems is a plus but not required
• Experience optimizing backend systems for low latency
• Proficiency with profiling tools and performance analysis
• Experience with PostgreSQL query optimization and indexing strategies
• Experience handling high-throughput workloads
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Background in quantitative finance or algorithmic trading
• Experience with event sourcing patterns
• Knowledge of regulatory compliance in financial systems
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing)
• Understanding of financial protocols and trading APIs (FIX protocol, exchange integrations)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work on a critical, high-visibility product
• Direct impact on thousands of active traders
• Collaborative team environment with other senior engineers
• Professional development and conference attendance