Backend Engineer
About the role
Backend Engineer role at QFEX, a 24/7 global stock exchange, focusing on reliable, low-latency services for a high-performance trading platform.
Responsibilities
- Design fault-tolerant, low-latency, always-available services; write load tests and chaos suites; tune until p99 is boring.
- Set up and carry out automated test suites including CI/CD and minimize technical debt.
- Evaluate tools, set coding standards, and guide architectural decisions as we scale.
- Share and receive new knowledge and experiences, set impeccable cultural standards, and help interview the next engineers.
Qualifications
- A STEM degree from a highly ranked university (UK Oxbridge/Imperial level, US HYMPs, or top IIT).
- Experience with a high-performance language like Rust, C or C++.
- 3+ years building and working on real-time production Exchanges or HFT Systems.
- Desire to create a culture of tests, metrics, and graceful degradation.
- Impeccable levels of trust and the ability to make decisions rapidly (minutes).
Skills
Benefits
- Lunch allowance and regular company events.
- Grow alongside fintech experts and help set standards and culture.
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
About QFEX
24/7 Global Stock Exchange
QFEX is the 24/7 exchange for traditional financial markets. We let you trade US equities, commodities and FX pairs with (or without) leverages of up to 100x. On QFEX, UX comes first: brokerless market access, seamless integration with traditional payment rails, and ultra-efficient Perpetual Futures offered over all asset classes. Trading has never been simpler, cheaper or fairer than with QFEX. Founded by Quants and Engineers from Citadel & Tower Research who saw an opportunity to make markets how they always should have been, QFEX will eventually replace the entire $100 billion exchange and clearing industry.
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