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Flowdesk · 1 day ago

Senior Back-End Engineer NAM (F/M/D)

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $175K/yr

Flowdesk is building a global financial institution for digital assets, focusing on market integrity and efficiency. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build core services for their trading platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.

CryptocurrencyFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyWeb3

Hiring Manager

Thomas AAKRA

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain microservices primarily written in Rust, with some services and tooling in TypeScript

Contribute to system architecture and design discussions, helping shape the evolution of our backend services and trading platform

Implement scalable, resilient backend systems supporting OTC and API trading workflows

Build and optimize high-performance trading services, with a focus on low latency, high throughput, and fault tolerance

Develop and maintain REST and WebSocket APIs, ensuring proper versioning, robust documentation, and smooth integration for internal and external clients

Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, following industry best practices, code review standards, and internal guidelines

Monitor, investigate, and resolve production issues, including performance bottlenecks, service failures, and client-impacting anomalies, in close collaboration with SRE/Infra

Deploy, scale, and monitor microservices in cloud and containerized environments, working with tooling such as Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines

Qualification

RustMicroservicesAPI designCloud environmentsTypeScriptSQL/NoSQLCI/CD toolsDebugging skillsOrganizedCollaboration

Required

Solid experience as a backend engineer, ideally in high-availability, low-latency, or high-throughput environments (trading, fintech, or similar is a plus)

Strong programming skills in Rust (or strong systems-level experience in a similar language and willingness to ramp up quickly on Rust); familiarity with TypeScript or modern JavaScript is a plus

Knowledge of API design (REST, WebSocket), including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and versioning

Comfortable working with databases and data stores (SQL and/or NoSQL), including schema design and performance optimization

Experience running services in cloud and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, etc.) and with CI/CD tools

Strong debugging and performance profiling skills, with a methodical approach to identifying and fixing complex production issues

Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Organized, pragmatic, and delivery-focused, with a strong interest in continuous learning and in applying new technologies to improve our platform