Andiamo

Backend Engineer - Elite Hedge Fund

New York, New York · Mid

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 52 days ago

PythonJavaGoRustC++Backend DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisCassandraAWSGCPAzureDockerRESTgRPCKafkaData EngineeringResearchCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

You will work on low-latency services, scalable data pipelines, and resilient infrastructure that enable quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and traders to operate in real time across global markets.

Responsibilities

Build Core Services: Develop APIs, services, and data pipelines that support trading, research, and risk management workflows.
Ensure Reliability & Scale: Design backend systems to handle high-throughput, low-latency workloads in real-time environments.
Work with Data: Build and optimize systems for ingesting, storing, and serving large volumes of financial and market data.
Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with frontend engineers, quantitative researchers, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Maintain Code Quality: Write clean, testable, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews and best practices.
Develop APIs, services, and data pipelines that support trading, research, and risk management workflows.
Design backend systems to handle high-throughput, low-latency workloads in real-time environments.
Build and optimize systems for ingesting, storing, and serving large volumes of financial and market data.
Partner with frontend engineers, quantitative researchers, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
This is a hands-on role where your code and design choices will directly influence investment outcomes.

Requirements

Professional Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in data-intensive or real-time systems.
Databases: Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and distributed data stores (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis).
Messaging & Streaming: Knowledge of Kafka, Pulsar, or other event-driven architectures.
Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
APIs: Experience designing and scaling RESTful or gRPC APIs in production.
Collaboration: Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with researchers, traders, and other engineers.
This is an opportunity to apply your backend expertise in one of the most dynamic environments in technology.

Nice to have

5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in data-intensive or real-time systems.
Proficiency in Python, Java, or C++
familiarity with Go or Rust is a plus.
Languages: Proficiency in Python, Java, or C++

Company info

We are seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build the high-performance systems that power trading, risk, and research platforms at a leading hedge fund.

Visa & Work Authorization

us of tier-one vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google

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