Posted 29 months ago
Sr Backend Engineer - Trading Systems
@ hireVouch
Remote in Canada
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its trading systems team to architect, build and maintain a proprietary trading platform. The role centres on Rust-based systems programming, performance-sensitive design and close work with the trading team.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design and build a trading system
- Ensure resilience through code reviews and testing
- Contribute to system architecture and interface design
- Own multiple components end to end
- Apply quality engineering practices in a lean agile team
Requirements summary:
- 2 to 8 years of software engineering experience
- Systems programming in Rust, C++ or Go
- Experience with performance-sensitive and concurrent systems
- Distributed systems and microservices experience
- Trading systems experience a plus
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- Employer posting date
- 2024-06-04
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Travel | air: minimal · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home, Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Full company description
Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
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- People associated on LinkedIn
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- Reported office locations
- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
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- hireVouch
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
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The Opportunity
As a Backend Engineer, Trading Systems on our engineering team you will play a critical role in building, supporting and maintaining the system and tools to support our proprietary trading system. From designing high impact and scalable components to solving complex design problems you will serve as an integral partner to our trading team. You may be the right person for this position if you’ve got a strong background deploying quality engineering practices within lean agile development teams to build best in class tools and products.
This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced and scrappy developer to make a meaningful impact on the bottom line of a fast-moving crypto-native firm. In this role, you have the opportunity to work with a fast-moving, high impact team, develop your skills in RUST and contribute to complex and iterative system development.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design and build the next phase of a world-class trading system
- Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing
- Contribute to system architecture and interface design
- Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance
- Be an integral contributor to a lean agile development team
- Apply and be a proponent of quality engineering practices
About you
- You thrive in less structured environments and are at your best when driving and delivering results with the freedom to build and execute your own plan
- You are as excited by starting a project as completing, maintaining and continually optimizing it
- You are resourceful and can tow the line between moving fast and breaking things and moving methodically to get things right the first time
Preferred experience
- 2-8 years of full-time software engineering experience, ideally as a systems programmer (Rust, C++, GO). Bonus if you have experience with and/or interest in learning Rust.
- Experience beyond testing (e.g. quality processes, verification & validation)
- Experience building scalable, performant, production-level applications with regular release cycles
- Performance sensitive engineering including multi-threading, streaming data, and concurrency
- Distributed systems, micro services
- Experience building trading systems is a strong plus, with an interest in and enthusiasm for the crypto space.
Our Team & Culture
we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. Our distributed team understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.
Principles that drive our team & work
- Compete to win
- Explore, experiment, play
- Always be building
- Seek and speak truth
- Own your shit.
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