Financial Services Division (FSD) Engineering team is looking to solve the problem of leading the way in the Cloud and Big Data analytics ecosystem by providing strategic technical leadership for their real-time API platform
Requirements
- Experience designing and operating real-time, low-latency API platforms at scale
- Experience with protocols (HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets), caching, load balancing, and API security
- Experience with at least one modern backend language (Go, Java, Rust, or Node.js)
- Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and modern backend stacks (e.g., Node.js, Java, Go, or Python)
- AWS and Python experience
- Experience with API gateways, load balancing, caching, and observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve our real-time API platform for scalability, low-latency, and high availability (4–5 9s uptime)
- Lead design and implementation of platform-wide projects, such as event-driven architecture, observability, service mesh integration, and rate-limiting strategies
- Bring complex projects from concept to production, influencing technical direction across multiple teams
- Lead technical deep dives, reviews, and postmortems to improve engineering quality
- Lead the reliability, scalability, and performance of real-time APIs and associated platform services
- Work with SREs and DevOps to improve observability, incident response, and system tuning
- Guide important decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure the platform meets demanding Service Level Agreements for latency, reliability, and throughput
Other
- 10+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering with a focus on distributed systems and API design
- Partner with engineering managers, staff engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to align technical execution with our priorities
- Define and promote best practices for API design, versioning, patterns, and developer experience
- DevOps Knowledge: Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team
