Backend Engineer

Tradeify

7d • $115,000 - $140,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Tradeify is building a high-performance trading ecosystem for traders worldwide, offering capital, technology, education, and community across futures and crypto markets. Technology is central to their operations, and they are seeking a Backend Engineer to contribute to their rapidly scaling platform. This role involves designing, building, and scaling the core services and infrastructure that power Tradeify's trading platform, focusing on distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and high-throughput APIs. The engineer will collaborate with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver robust backend systems and will be based in their Boca Raton, FL office.

Requirements

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages: Python, Node.js, Go, or C#
• Deep experience designing and building scalable REST APIs and WebSocket services
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and query optimization
• Experience with caching layers (Redis, Memcached) and async processing patterns
• Familiarity with message brokers and event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, or similar)
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Docker/Kubernetes
• Strong grasp of system design principles — distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability
• Ability to work independently and move quickly in a startup environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience within fintech, trading, crypto, or financial systems
• Exposure to real-time systems or market data applications (order books, tick data, trade execution)
• Experience with high-volume or time-series data systems such as TimescaleDB or ClickHouse
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Experience with gRPC or other binary protocols for low-latency service communication
• Background in building compliance, risk, or audit trail systems
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and engineering automation

Responsibilities

• Design and build performant, scalable REST APIs and WebSocket services
• Develop and maintain backend microservices using Python, Node.js, Go, or C#
• Own features end-to-end from schema design through deployment and monitoring
• Build integrations with third-party trading platforms, market data providers, and internal tools
• Design and optimize relational and NoSQL data models across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB
• Build and maintain event-driven pipelines and message queue systems
• Work with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized deployments
• Manage caching strategies, background job processing, and async workflows
• Ensure system reliability, security, and performance across all environments
• Implement observability — logging, metrics, alerting, and distributed tracing
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical planning sessions
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable backend code
• Troubleshoot production incidents and drive root cause resolution

Benefits

• High ownership and ability to make direct impact
• In-office environment in Boca Raton, FL with a fast-moving startup culture
• Opportunity to work across APIs, infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform architecture
• Collaborative, ambitious, and highly driven team environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed