Backend Engineer

We're looking for a Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience and great problem-solving skills to join our Rockstar Engineering team in developing a next-generation trading platform focused on low-latency APIs and scalable architecture.
Responsibilities:
Architect an ultra-low-latency order execution engine, where shaving microseconds creates real market advantage.
Design a Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine that evaluates thousands of live market conditions with deterministic, microsecond-level precision.
Build and operate our real-time feed system delivering 300K+ updates/sec over WebSockets, powering charts, scanners, and option chains with 5B+ messages daily.
Engineer large-scale analytics pipelines that transform millions of live and fundamental data points into AI-driven insights.
Design and manage resilient, multi-site infrastructure spanning AWS and co-located data centers, ensuring near-zero downtime and exactly-once reliability.
You'll primarily code in Golang or Rust, the core of our backend stack.
Requirements:
5+ years of hands-on experience in Golang / Rust / Java backend systems.
Solid understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and network programming.
Proven track record in low-latency APIs and real-time distributed systems.
Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies.
Experience in trading systems or financial platforms is a strong plus.
A problem-solver's mindset and the drive to build systems that operate at scale and speed

Experience
8-11 yrs