Staff Backend Engineer - Asia/Europe

Job Description

Please Read Before Applying

This is not a Web3 experiment.
This is not a feature-factory backend role.
This is not a 9–5 maintenance job.

We are looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer with real experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or financial systems.

If youve worked close to execution engines, exchanges, pricing systems, or financial infrastructure — we want to talk.

Candidates must be based in Asia (Europe may be considered).

The Role

Were hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to own and scale performance-critical trading systems that sit directly in the execution path.

Youll be working where:

• Latency matters

• Correctness matters

• Reliability matters

• And mistakes cost real money

This is production-grade infrastructure with real volume and real risk.

Youll work directly with the CEO, COO, and founding engineers, making architectural decisions that immediately impact live systems.

What Youll Do

• Design and build backend systems for:

  • Order routing

  • Execution engines

  • Pricing services

  • Trade reconciliation

• Optimize services for:

  • Low latency

  • High throughput

  • Fault tolerance

  • Deterministic correctness

• Make architectural decisions affecting production trading flows

• Build and maintain systems operating under real capital exposure

Tech Stack

• Node.js

• Python

• MongoDB

• AWS (Serverless Infrastructure)

What Were Looking For

• Proven experience building:

  • Trading systems

  • Exchange infrastructure

  • Order matching engines

  • Financial execution systems

• Strong systems-thinking and performance intuition

• Deep understanding of:

  • Concurrency

  • Throughput bottlenecks

  • Latency profiling

  • Production observability

• Comfortable operating in a high-ownership, high-accountability environment

• Willing to work hard on complex, high-impact problems

• Based in Asia (Europe may be considered)

Preferred (Not Required)

• Web3 / crypto trading exposure

• Experience operating at meaningful trading volumes

• Experience scaling infrastructure under volatility spikes

Why This Role Is Different

This is not just backend engineering.

Youll be:

• Building systems that sit directly in trade execution paths

• Working alongside leadership

• Owning real infrastructure

• Influencing architecture at the highest level

If you want comfort, this isnt it.
If you want ownership and impact, this is the seat.