Staff Backend Engineer: Take Profit Trader

Serv Recruitment Agency

2d•$150,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

Serv, a global executive recruitment partner, is hiring on behalf of our client, Take Profit Trader, for a Staff Backend Engineer. Take Profit Trader is a high-growth proprietary trading firm handling hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume. Dedicated to innovation, operational excellence, and empowering traders globally, they are hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to own one of the most critical platforms within the business. This role involves solving complex distributed systems challenges, building highly scalable backend infrastructure, and influencing technical direction across an engineering organization.

Requirements

10+ years of backend or distributed systems engineering experience
3 to 4+ years operating at a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership level
Proven experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency, real-time production systems
Strong hands-on experience developing backend services and APIs using .NET Core
Deep expertise with WebSockets or comparable persistent connection technologies, including scaling, connection management, and delivery guarantees
Strong experience with Kafka, MSK, or similar streaming platforms, including topic design, partitioning, and consumer scaling
Experience building stateful stream processing applications using Kafka Streams, Flink, or similar technologies
Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL expertise, including replication strategies and schema optimization
Experience working with time-series databases such as TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, InfluxDB, or similar technologies
Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including consistency models, idempotency, fault tolerance, delivery guarantees, and backpressure

Nice To Haves

Experience within trading, fintech, financial services, payments, fraud detection, or risk systems is highly preferred
Experience with AWS streaming services, infrastructure as code, or trade surveillance systems is a plus
A strategic operator: You think big but also execute at a high level
A builder: You enjoy creating systems, teams, and processes from the ground up
Data-driven: You test, measure, and iterate based on performance
Highly organized: You manage multiple workstreams without losing detail
A strong communicator: You move quickly and keep stakeholders aligned
Proactive: You take initiative and identify opportunities without waiting for direction
Creative and internet-native: You understand content trends, formats, and audience behavior
Accountable: You take ownership of results and continuously look to improve

Responsibilities

Designing and building the real-time notification platform that delivers low-latency alerts and account updates to traders and internal systems
Building and operating Kafka/MSK streaming pipelines that ingest live trading data from multiple upstream systems
Designing scalable event-driven architectures with durable messaging, replay capabilities, and optimized partitioning strategies
Developing stateful stream processing applications that support risk detection, fraud monitoring, and market integrity initiatives
Designing and optimizing PostgreSQL and time-series database schemas for both operational workloads and historical analytics
Building and evolving production-grade .NET Core APIs that support trading, risk, and fraud systems
Defining service reliability standards, monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure highly available systems
Driving architecture decisions across the engineering organization while mentoring senior engineers and contributing hands-on to implementation
Partnering closely with engineering leadership to establish technical standards and long-term platform strategy