Staff Backend Engineer Take Profit Trader - Serv Recruitment Agency

Serv, a global executive recruitment partner, is hiring on behalf of our client, Take Profit Trader, for a Staff Backend Engineer.

Join the Team:

Take Profit Trader is a high-growth proprietary trading firm handling hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume. Dedicated to innovation, operational excellence, and empowering traders globally, they are hiring a VP of Trading Risk to lead and scale the company's risk function. This is a leadership role responsible for institutionalizing the firm's risk function, anticipating new exploit strategies before they emerge, and providing commercially sharp risk leadership. As the company continues to scale its brokerage business, this role will expand into ownership of live trading risk while building and leading a growing team.

For more information, visit: https://takeprofittrader.com/

Position Responsibilities:

If you are someone who enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges, building highly scalable backend infrastructure, and influencing technical direction across an engineering organization, this is an opportunity to own one of the most critical platforms within the business.

This role includes:

• Designing and building the real-time notification platform that delivers low-latency alerts and account updates to traders and internal systems • Building and operating Kafka/MSK streaming pipelines that ingest live trading data from multiple upstream systems • Designing scalable event-driven architectures with durable messaging, replay capabilities, and optimized partitioning strategies • Developing stateful stream processing applications that support risk detection, fraud monitoring, and market integrity initiatives • Designing and optimizing PostgreSQL and time-series database schemas for both operational workloads and historical analytics • Building and evolving production-grade .NET Core APIs that support trading, risk, and fraud systems • Defining service reliability standards, monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure highly available systems • Driving architecture decisions across the engineering organization while mentoring senior engineers and contributing hands-on to implementation • Partnering closely with engineering leadership to establish technical standards and long-term platform strategy

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