- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Full-time · Senior
- 5+ years
Design, build, and maintain Scala-based backend systems for auto-liquidation engine, risk evaluation, and trading services.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Scala backend services for evaluation, risk, and trading services workloads.
- Build and evolve actor-based systems (Akka or similar) that handle high-throughput market data, position changes, and event-driven workflows.
- Own significant features end-to-end, from technical spec through implementation, code review, and production hand-off.
- Design data models and database changes (PostgreSQL) and contribute to the shared master schema, Protobuf, and SQL repositories.
- Diagnose and resolve complex backend issues by analyzing logs, tracing distributed flows, and reproducing edge cases.
Requirements
- Nice to have: fintech
- Nice to have: capital markets technology
- Nice to have: order routing
- Nice to have: market data
- Nice to have: position management