Senior GoLang Developer (Trading Systems)
We are looking for an experienced Senior Golang Developer to join our Trading Technology team and build high-performance, low-latency systems for a global Forex/CFD brokerage.
We expect the ability to independently investigate complex tasks, propose optimal architectural solutions, and proactively collaborate within the cross-functional team and with various stakeholders (Trading, IT).
This role is ideal for engineers who understand market microstructure and enjoy building high-throughput distributed systems with strict performance and reliability requirements.
Responsibilities:
Core Development
- Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput trading microservices in Go
Architecture & Performance
- Optimize performance at all levels: CPU/memory consumption, GC pressure, lock-free structures, batching strategies.
- Implement efficient concurrency patterns (SPSC/MPSC queues, worker pools, sync primitives, event-driven pipelines).
- Build resilient distributed services with failover, back-pressure handling, and graceful degradation.
Team Collaboration
- Interact with Product Owner/Business Analyst to design flows, logical schemes, algorithms.
- Conduct cross-team code reviews, propose improvements, exchange experience with peers.
Essential
- 5+ years of experience with Golang, including deep understanding of concurrency (goroutines, channels, sync, atomics).
- Strong experience implementing microservices using event-driven and RPC-based communication (NATS, Kafka, gRPC, REST).
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis, MongoDB) including query optimization and schema design.
- Understanding of containerization, orchestration, infrastructure as code tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible).
- Solid experience with at least one message queue/broker (Kafka, NATS, Redis Streams).
- Experience in building high-load systems with low latency.
- Strong debugging and profiling skills (pprof, flamegraphs, tracing).
Nice to Have
- Experience developing systems for Forex/CFD trading, including knowledge of:
- Market data streams (ticks, depth, L2/L3 order books)
- Order execution flows (market, limit, IOC/FOK, A-book/B-book routing)
- Risk engines
- Liquidity provider integrations
- Knowledge of efficient binary protocols: Protobuf, SBE, FlatBuffers.
- Experience with high-performance in-memory data structures.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
- Understanding of FIX API integrations.
Benefits:
- Hybrid Working Policy
- Discretionary performance related bonus
- Personalized Flex-Benefits
- A focus on your wellbeing, including talks and access to self-development tools.
- Medical insurance for employees.
- Comprehensive leave package of 40 days inclusive of Public Holidays
