Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, code quality (SOLID principles), and continuous improvement.
Solution Architecture: Drive the design and implementation of end-to-end solutions using .NET Core and AWS, ensuring systems are low-latency, highly available, and scalable.
Cross-Team Coordination: Act as the primary technical point of contact for Product Managers, QA, DevOps, and Business Stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with trading goals.
Hands-on Development: Maintain "skin in the game" by contributing to core framework development and conducting rigorous code reviews.
Database Management: Architect and optimize complex database schemas, ensuring high-performance data retrieval and integrity for real-time trading data.
Production Excellence: Oversee system health, performance tuning, and incident response for mission-critical trading applications.
Technical Qualifications
Backend Mastery: 8+ years of experience in .NET / .NET Core (C#), building high-throughput microservices and APIs. Experience in Kafka and RDBMS (SQL Server) is expected.
AWS Expertise: Proven experience designing cloud-native architectures using AWS services (Lambda, EC2, EKS, ECS/Fargate, S3, SQS/SNS, Postgres, and API Gateway.
Database Proficiency: Strong experience with both Relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Aurora) databases, including advanced performance tuning and query optimization.
Modern DevOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
Domain & Soft Skills
Trading Domain Knowledge: Significant experience in Capital Markets/Trading. You must understand Order Management Systems (OMS), Execution Management Systems (EMS), FIX protocol, market data feeds, or risk management.
Articulation & Communication: Ability to translate complex technical jargon into business-friendly language for stakeholders and provide clear, concise direction to the team.
Problem Solving: A proven track record of resolving complex architectural bottlenecks and technical debt in high-pressure environments