About the Role

This role leads the backend teams responsible for the most critical parts of the system: user lifecycle, risk, liquidation, and payment.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

You’ll own the backend systems end-to-end, including:

● User lifecycle and trade processing

● Margin, risk checks, and liquidation flows

● User balances, P&L, funding, and ledgers

● Trading APIs (REST/WebSocket) used by both retail and institutional clients

Day-to-Day Expectations

● Make architectural decisions for performance-critical, correctness-sensitive systems

● Review designs and code for concurrency issues, edge cases, and failure modes

● Own incidents when things break — including postmortems and follow-ups

● Work closely with Product, Risk, QA.

● Build and lead a backend team of ~12–15 backend engineers across multiple pods

What We’re Looking For

● 8+ years building and managing backend or distributed systems in production

● Strong hands-on experience in node / Go (performance matters here)

● Experience with systems where money, state, and correctness are non-negotiable

● A solid understanding of concurrency, threading, and system failure modes