Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer – Hedge Fund

About The Role
We are seeking a
Backend Engineer
to design and build the high-performance systems that power trading, risk, and research platforms at a leading hedge fund. You will work on low-latency services, scalable data pipelines, and resilient infrastructure that enable quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and traders to operate in real time across global markets.

As a mid-level engineer with around 5 years of experience, you'll own core backend services, collaborate with frontend and quantitative engineering teams, and continuously refine systems for speed, reliability, and scalability. This is a hands-on role where your code and design choices will directly influence investment outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Build Core Services: Develop APIs, services, and data pipelines that support trading, research, and risk management workflows.
• Ensure Reliability & Scale: Design backend systems to handle high-throughput, low-latency workloads in real-time environments.
• Work with Data: Build and optimize systems for ingesting, storing, and serving large volumes of financial and market data.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with frontend engineers, quantitative researchers, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Maintain Code Quality: Write clean, testable, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews and best practices.
• Operational Ownership: Monitor, debug, and improve backend services to ensure uptime and performance under demanding conditions.

What We're Looking For

• Professional Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in data-intensive or real-time systems.
• Languages: Proficiency in Python, Java, or C++; familiarity with Go or Rust is a plus.
• Databases: Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and distributed data stores (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis).
• Messaging & Streaming: Knowledge of Kafka, Pulsar, or other event-driven architectures.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
• APIs: Experience designing and scaling RESTful or gRPC APIs in production.
• Security: Understanding of authentication, encryption, and secure coding practices, especially in financial systems.
• Collaboration: Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with researchers, traders, and other engineers.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Why Join

This is an opportunity to apply your backend expertise in one of the most dynamic environments in technology. You'll build systems where performance and reliability directly impact investment success, collaborate with world-class quantitative researchers, and work on complex engineering challenges at the intersection of finance and technology. You'll learn quickly, be challenged daily, and see the impact of your work in real time.

About Andiamo
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