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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building high-volume, low-latency systems with a focus on transactional integrity and regulatory compliance. Proven ability to lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and drive system reliability and performance across diverse asset classes.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Go ProgrammingHigh-Volume System OwnershipRelational Database ExpertiseEvent-Driven ArchitectureTechnical Leadership
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Hard Skills
Backend DevelopmentDistributed SystemsTransactional Systems DesignTesting StrategyEdge-Case Analysis
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationMentorship
Tools & Technologies
PostgreSQLGRPCKafkaRabbitMQKubernetes
Industry Keywords
MarginRisk ManagementReg TPortfolio MarginBrokerage Systems
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesGRPCJavaKafkaKubernetesPostgresRabbitMQRustC++Go
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the architecture and technical roadmap for margin and risk across asset classes
- Design and build correct, testable, and observable systems implementing margin methodologies and regulatory rules
- Lead real-time risk enforcement on the order path, balancing latency, accuracy, and safety
- Drive reliability and performance across services, including throughput, state recovery, database load, and failure isolation
- Partner with Product, Brokerage Operations, Compliance, and adjacent engineering teams to define behavior and integration boundaries
- Set standards for transactional integrity, idempotency, reconciliation, feature flags, and staged rollouts
- Lead design reviews, mentor senior and mid-level engineers, and raise engineering standards
- Serve as a technical escalation point for production margin and risk issues and drive durable incident prevention
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years of backend or distributed-systems experience; strong preference for ownership of the same consequential production system for at least two years
- Proven ownership of a high-volume system where defects could cause financial loss, data-integrity failure, or inappropriate customer restriction
- Experience designing and shipping transactional, low-latency, high-throughput systems
- Strong expertise in Go, or deep experience in Java, C++, or Rust and willingness to work primarily in Go
- Deep knowledge of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, transactions, consistency, and concurrency
- Experience with event-driven and service-oriented systems, including gRPC or other RPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar, and Kubernetes
- Demonstrated care for correctness through testing strategy, edge-case analysis, reconciliation, and safe production rollout
- Clear communication with engineers and operations and compliance partners
- Track record of technical leadership and mentorship across teams
- Preferred: hands-on margin or risk experience across more than one asset class
- Preferred: familiarity with Reg T, portfolio margin, options spread margin, or futures margin
- Preferred: background in brokerage, clearing, exchange, ledger, payments, or settlement systems
- Preferred: experience with options, derivatives, or multi-leg strategies
- Preferred: workflow orchestration experience with Temporal or similar
- Preferred: observability and production performance tuning
- Preferred: leading migrations or refactors in production-critical environments
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card