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Senior Backend Engineer

New York, NY | Full-time

We are looking for a full-time Senior Backend Engineer to build out Godel Terminal, a professional web-based financial terminal software offering comprehensive financial and investment data.

Stack:

  • Backend: JVM, Kotlin, Python, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes

  • Monitoring/Visualization: Grafana, Prometheus

  • Database: PostgreSQL, Clickhouse

  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and own scalable streaming data pipelines and ETL workflows

  • Optimize large-scale, high-performance databases and ensure efficient data storage

  • Integrate high-volume data feeds and process them for real-time applications

  • Deploy and manage containerized data infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes

  • Collaborate with backend teams to ensure real-time data delivery to UI components

  • Monitor system performance and ensure reliability through tools like Grafana and Prometheus

  • Implement data security best practices and monitor service reliability with alerting and logging

Requirements:

  • Strong proficiency in Python and JVM-based languages (Kotlin or Java)

  • Extensive experience with large-scale data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam or Spark

  • Expertise in database management (PostgreSQL, NoSQL solutions) and query optimization

  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems like Kafka

  • Hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)

  • Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus

  • Strong debugging skills, especially focused on distributed systems performance optimization

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to have:

  • Experience with real-time data systems and streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka, Flink)

  • Familiarity with financial data systems or terminals

  • Production experience with Kubernetes at scale in cloud environments

  • NYC residence or willingness to relocate

  • Background in managing machine learning pipelines or complex data workflows

Our offer:

  • $140k-$250k a year

  • Equity negotiable

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