Staff Engineer (Solution Architecture)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026. FTMO scores B on the Alion truth index.
Our 100+ engineers build the FTMO platform for 3.5M+ users in 140+ countries. Our Solution Architecture team makes sure that many teams and systems fit together. It works as an enabling team: product teams own their systems and we help them move faster. We are growing the team and you will help shape how it works.
As a Staff Engineer, you lead the architecture of complex initiatives across domains and connect Business, Operations and IT. You own two areas: the architecture of 2-3 product areas and at least one technical standard that every team uses.
What will you do?
Be the architecture partner for 2-3 product areas: lead their cross-domain initiatives end to end and decide where the logic and data live.
Set boundaries between IT teams and product areas, so that every piece of logic and data has one clear owner.
Own a shared technical standard, such as event design on Kafka, API conventions or the service template, that teams adopt because it helps them.
Decide architecture questions that cross team boundaries. Teams propose, you decide and explain why.
Align API and event contracts between teams: what is exchanged, who owns it and how it evolves.
Help split a shared legacy database into service-owned data with clear ownership.
Turn business needs into technical options with clear trade-offs and judge features on return, complexity and running cost.
Pair with teams on complex integrations and prove approaches with spikes and reference implementations, so teams can handle the next one on their own.
Grow architecture skills across teams through guilds, workshops and documentation.
Work with the Cloud Platform and Security teams on service-to-service security, secrets and data handling.
What do you bring to the table?
7+ years in software engineering, with recent years hands-on in distributed and event-driven systems.
Experience as the go-to technical person well beyond your own team.
Microservices, domain-driven design and database decoupling in practice.
Practical Kafka knowledge: partitioning, delivery guarantees, schema registry, failure modes.
You care about the business and can explain a technical trade-off to a Product Manager.
You have grown other engineers beyond your own team through mentoring, pairing or guilds.
AI is part of your daily work. You use it with a critical eye and support its adoption across the company.
You are pragmatic: you start from the problem, not the pattern, and you measure your success by what teams can do without you.
Security-minded: OAuth2 and JWT flows, secret management, data classification.
English at C1 or higher.
Nice to have: background in fintech, trading or a regulated industry, and experience with our stack: PHP, Go, Java/Kotlin, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes and Google Cloud.
Why join the FTMO team?
We are a Czech fintech that, since 2015, has grown from an idea into a global project.
300+ amazing teammates. We’re a great team who learn from each other every day.
How do we work? We focus on meaningful work and open communication, while only adopting processes that make our lives easier.
Prague, Národní třída. Enjoy our modern offices at the Quadrio shopping center, offering beautiful views and excellent accessibility.
What if I don’t trade? No worries. We’ll show you what our product is all about and introduce you to the basics of trading.
Free fruit, snacks, and coffee are always within reach in the office.
How do we promote strong relationships and well-being? Company cottage, team building events, and running club.
Flexible hybrid model. We prefer collaborating in person to keep the team spirit high, but we offer the flexibility you need to stay balanced.
*The benefits mentioned above apply to FTMO on-site employees in our Prague office.