Mlabs
Backend Engineer (NYC)
New York, New York, United States · Full-time
No sponsorship$180k-$320kDetected 30 days ago
GoPostgreSQLRESTgRPC
About the role
- Technical Experience Golang Expertise: Strong experience as a Go engineer with a deep understanding of how to leverage AI tools effectively in the development process while maintaining rigorous validation criteria.
- Professional Attributes & Characteristics Security-Minded: A proactive approach to identifying and decreasing security attack vectors across the backend ecosystem.
- Solution-Oriented: Focused on enabling internal teams and engineers to move as fast as possible by addressing requests and unblocking technical dependencies.
Responsibilities
- Develop the Entity Service API: Build and maintain a core central configuration plane used to manage assets, mappings, market hours, data providers, smart contract parameters, algorithm parameters, and more.
- Architect a Low-Latency Pricing System: Assist in designing and implementing a highly reliable, dynamic pricing engine capable of pricing every incoming transaction in real time to optimize liquidity attraction.
- Data & Schema Design: Deep expertise with database schema design, evolution, and iteration.
- AI Power User: An engineer who utilizes AI effectively to accelerate workflows, validates all outputs critically, and implements strict technical guardrails rather than relying on unverified generation.
- Your data may be shared only with clients and trusted partners where necessary for recruitment purposes.
- Build and maintain a core central configuration plane used to manage assets, mappings, market hours, data providers, smart contract parameters, algorithm parameters, and more.
- This infrastructure is designed to allow engineering teams to self-serve 90% of their needs, enabling this role to focus entirely on high-level, high-impact projects.
- The successful candidate will collaborate closely with quants, infrastructure specialists, and data engineers to build a centralized pricing plane and an extremely dynamic pricing system that determines market competitiveness in real time.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with quants, infra, data, and backend engineers to establish a centralized pricing plane reflecting precise real-dollar values across every part of the system.
Requirements
- Direct experience with trading systems and a strong understanding of financial concepts, instruments, and market mechanics.
- Financial Domain Knowledge: Direct experience with trading systems and a strong understanding of financial concepts, instruments, and market mechanics.
- Modern Tech Stack: Hands-on experience with Postgres, NATS, Redpanda, gRPC, REST APIs, and WebSockets.
- If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
- A mid- to senior-level Backend Engineer is required to join an ambitious team focused on scaling a state-of-the-art infrastructure layer.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with Postgres, NATS, Redpanda, gRPC, REST APIs, and WebSockets.
Compensation
- Competitive base salary.
Benefits
- Equity ownership options.
- Build the Entity Service UI: Deliver an internal UI allowing team members to propose changes, review configurations, and leave comments, backed by robust Access Control Lists (ACL) and user management.
- Propose and Own Initiatives: Take stock of system needs, evaluate what delivers the most value, and propose independent workflows and paths forward.
Company info
- At MLabs, we are committed to offer equal opportunities to all candidates.
- We ensure no discrimination, accessible job adverts, and providing information in accessible formats.
- Our goal is to foster a diverse, inclusive workplace with equal opportunities for all.
- If you need any reasonable adjustments during any part of the hiring process or you would like to see the job-advert in an accessible format please let us know at the earliest opportunity by emailing human-resources@mlabs.city.
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- You may request the deletion of your data or withdraw your consent at any time by contacting legal@mlabs.city.
- Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates.
- Commitment to Equality and Accessibility: At MLabs, we are committed to offer equal opportunities to all candidates.
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