Lead Platform Engineer at TD Securities, developing a high performing Trading Risk Warehouse platform. Responsible for ensuring stability and scalability, while managing underlying infrastructure and supporting development teams.
About the role
- Senior Engineer building and maintaining backend services and platform infrastructure for proprietary trading platform. Focusing on performance and reliability in a fintech environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and platform infrastructure in C# and Go, with a focus on performance, reliability, and correctness.
- Own backend components end-to-end - from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and on-call support.
- Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks before they become production incidents.
- Collaborate with the platform tech lead and other engineers on system design, code reviews, and cross-team integration work.
- Contribute to frontend development in React, particularly around platform integrations and internal tooling.
- Write and maintain comprehensive tests, documentation, and runbooks to support operational excellence.
- Participate actively in on-call rotation - owning issues through to resolution and contributing to post-incident reviews.
Requirements
- Strong C# development skills
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining backend or platform systems in production environments.
- Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems, particularly in financial, trading, or data-intensive domains.
- Strong understanding of databases including schema design, query optimization, and transactional integrity (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar).
- Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps tooling.
- Frontend awareness - comfortable working across the stack, reviewing or contributing to React-based frontend work.
- Reliable and dependable - you follow through, communicate proactively, and treat your commitments seriously.
- Strong communication skills; able to collaborate effectively across engineering and product.
- Familiarity with functional programming paradigms - comfortable applying immutability, pure functions, and composition patterns to write more predictable, testable code.
- Proficiency in Go - comfortable writing production-grade services and APIs.
- Experience with React or modern frontend frameworks - able to contribute to platform tooling and interfaces.
- Familiarity with Python for scripting, tooling, or data processing.
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
- Background in trading, futures, prop trading, or fintech - you understand the domain and its performance expectations.
- Familiarity with distributed systems patterns: message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching strategies (Redis), and service-to-service communication.
- Exposure to observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, and distributed tracing.
- Experience working in multi-team engineering organizations with shared platform dependencies.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
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