Senior Backend Developer - Trading Platform

MyFunded Futures•Dallas, TX

About The Position

At My Funded Futures, we’re transforming the world of proprietary trading by giving traders the capital, tools, and community they need to succeed. We blend innovation, transparency, and performance to create opportunity — helping traders scale faster and smarter. If you’re passionate about fintech, financial markets, and data-driven growth, you’ll fit right in. Explore our open roles below and see how you can help us shape the future of funded trading. About the Role We're seeking an exceptional Senior Backend Developer with expertise in Go and C# to build and maintain Fintevo's trading platform backend infrastructure. You'll work alongside our engineering team to deliver high-performance trading systems that serve thousands of active traders who depend on real-time, reliable, and low-latency execution for their trading decisions. What You'll Build You'll develop and maintain core trading infrastructure, including: Real-time order routing and execution services High-frequency market data processing and distribution WebSocket and gRPC APIs for real-time client communication Integration with trading partners and liquidity providers (CQG, Tradovate) Risk management and position tracking systems Account management and authentication services Event-driven services for trade lifecycle management Database queries and optimizations for high-volume transactional data Beyond core trading systems, you'll also contribute to broader backend initiatives across the platform, including payment processing, reporting, and administrative tooling.

Requirements

5+ years of professional backend development experience
2+ years of hands-on experience with Go and/or C#
Strong understanding of concurrent programming and multithreading
Experience building high-performance, low-latency systems
Solid design pattern knowledge and clean code practices
Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis
Proficiency with Protobuf for service communication
Experience with message streaming platforms (Kafka and/or NATS)
Writing maintainable, well-documented, and testable code
Strong understanding of: Memory management and performance optimization, Connection pooling and resource management, Event-driven and message-based architectures
Experience building high-performance, data-intensive backend applications
Comfortable working with: Large-scale real-time data streams (WebSocket, gRPC, REST APIs), Time-series data storage and querying, Complex transactional workflows

Nice To Haves

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Background in quantitative finance or algorithmic trading
Experience with event sourcing patterns
Knowledge of regulatory compliance in financial systems
Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing)
Understanding of financial protocols and trading APIs (FIX protocol, exchange integrations)
Previous work on trading platforms, financial applications, or similar real-time systems is a plus but not required