Senior Backend Developer
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Summary
Senior Backend Developer building high-performance backend services, APIs, and microservices for derivatives trading, pricing, risk, and post-trade workflows in investment banking/capital markets. Day-to-day work spans trade lifecycle processing, market data integration, real-time event-driven systems, and mentoring junior engineers.
Job Description
- We are hiring a Senior Backend Developer with strong expertise in financial derivatives and enterprise backend systems.
- The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building scalable applications within investment banking, capital markets, or financial services environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-performance backend services, APIs, and microservices for derivatives trading, pricing, risk, and post-trade workflows.
- Build and optimize data models for trades, positions, cashflows, lifecycle events, and complex financial instruments.
- Develop solutions supporting Vanilla Options, Option Strategies, OTC Derivatives, and Structured Products.
- Implement trade lifecycle processes including trade capture, validation, confirmation, settlement, and reconciliation.
- Integrate with market data feeds, trading platforms, risk systems, exchanges, and clearing houses.
- Develop real-time event-driven solutions for pricing, risk calculations, and trade processing.
- Collaborate with traders, risk managers, business analysts, and quantitative teams to deliver business-critical solutions.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions and best practices.