Backend Engineer

We're looking for a Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience and great problem-solving skills to join our Rockstar Engineering team in developing a next-generation trading platform focused on low-latency APIs and scalable architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Architect an ultra-low-latency order execution engine, where shaving microseconds creates real market advantage.
• Design a Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine that evaluates thousands of live market conditions with deterministic, microsecond-level precision.
• Build and operate our real-time feed system delivering 300K+ updates/sec over WebSockets, powering charts, scanners, and option chains with 5B+ messages daily.
• Engineer large-scale analytics pipelines that transform millions of live and fundamental data points into AI-driven insights.
• Design and manage resilient, multi-site infrastructure spanning AWS and co-located data centers, ensuring near-zero downtime and exactly-once reliability.
• You'll primarily code in Golang or Rust, the core of our backend stack.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Golang / Rust / Java backend systems.
• Solid understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and network programming.
• Proven track record in low-latency APIs and real-time distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies.
• Experience in trading systems or financial platforms is a strong plus.
• A problem-solver's mindset and the drive to build systems that operate at scale and speed