Senior Backend Engineer II (Team Lead) - US Stocks
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Ajaib GroupFintech, stock trading
Workable workplace: remote; Workable locations: Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand. PolandFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional backend engineering, including 1+ year leading a squad or project technically.
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPJavaKafkaGoRedisCI/CDMicroservices
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 6 years of professional backend engineering experience.
- At least 1 year technically leading a squad or project.
- Proficiency in Java, Go, or another modern backend language.
- Strong experience with microservices, event-driven design, reliability, and observability.
- Experience writing and defending design documents.
- Solid experience with relational databases and query tuning, Kafka, and Redis.
- Experience running services on GCP or AWS with CI/CD.
- Ability to plan and deliver work with a team, give technical direction, and mentor engineers without formal authority.
- Direct experience integrating with API-first brokerage platforms such as Alpaca, DriveWealth, or Interactive Brokers, or with crypto exchanges.
- Experience in brokerage, trading, payments, cross-border money movement, or another regulated environment is a strong plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design for squad features, write design documents, and run design reviews.
- Break epics into tasks, estimate work, track delivery, and unblock engineers.
- Build the most critical and complex parts of the system hands-on.
- Set code quality standards through code reviews, testing practices, and coding guidelines.
- Ensure accurate money and quantity handling, idempotent requests, safe retries, and audit trails.
- Lead integrations with US brokerage and custody partners, including reconciliation of records.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis, and drive lasting fixes.
- Manage technical debt and negotiate trade-offs with Product and the Engineering Manager.
- Coach and mentor engineers in the squad.
- Design Smart Order Routing logic or multi-venue execution strategies, and define API contracts and WebSocket streaming standards for backend and frontend/mobile teams.
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