Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Node.JS Engineer to join a venture-backed fintech company building a next-generation platform for automated technical analysis and trading workflows. Our software brings institutional-grade analytics, pattern recognition, signal generation, backtesting, and automated execution, to professional traders, quantitative analysts, and investment teams.\n
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\n I this role, you’ll help evolve the backend systems that power a high-performance trading and analytics platform. You’ll work on the infrastructure behind algorithmic trading tools, data ingestion pipelines, large-scale testing engines, and a custom scripting environment used by thousands of active market participants.\n
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Required Skills & Experience\n
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- 2+ years of professional Node.JS development experience
- Solid understanding of \n
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- Event loop & async architecture
- Performance bottlenecks in Node.js
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- Experience working with large datasets or high-throughput systems
- PostgreSQL knowledge: \n
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- Query optimization
- Indexing strategies
- Handling large writes
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- Experience debugging production issues
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Desired Skills & Experience\n
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- Experience with \n
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- Performance profiling (CPU/memory)
- Load testing techniques
- Distributed systems or microservices
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- Understanding of: \n
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- Serialization formats (JSON, protobuf)
- Data pipeline design
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- Familiarity with: \n
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- Terraform
- Monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch)
- Blue-green or zero-downtime deployments
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The Offer\n
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- Equity eligible
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You will receive the following benefits: \n
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- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Vacation Time
- Stock Options
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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.\n
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