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Sr. Backend Engineer I - Investment

Ajaib
Posted this week

LOCATION

Jakarta · Remote

EXPERIENCE

4+ Years

TYPE

FullTime

SKILLS REQUIRED

Backend DevelopmentMicroservices ArchitectureDistributed SystemsReliability EngineeringJavaGo

Job description

Overview

Sr. Backend Engineer I on the Investment team, building and maintaining the backend services that power stock trading, including orders, market data, portfolio and transaction history.

What you'll do

  • Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs for stock trading and portfolio features.
  • Deliver features from technical design to production, with tests, monitoring and alerting.
  • Make sure all processes related to financials, quantities and prices are handled accurately, with safe retries and clear audit trails.
  • Integrate with internal systems and external parties such as exchange, clearing and bank connections.
  • Write clean, well-tested code and take part actively in code reviews.
  • Investigate production issues, find root causes and help ship lasting fixes.
  • Improve performance and reliability, especially around market open and peak trading volume.
  • Work with Product, Operations and Compliance to turn requirements into reliable solutions.

What you'll need

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4+ years of professional backend engineering, including running services in production.
  • Strong in Java, Go or another modern backend language.
  • Good understanding of microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, event-driven design and reliability basics.
  • Hands-on with relational databases (query tuning), caching (Redis) and messaging (Kafka).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS), containers and CI/CD.
  • Ownership mindset and clear communication.

Nice to have

  • Experience in capital markets, brokerage, payments or another regulated, high-traffic environment.

Details

  • Location: Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • Hybrid work arrangement, combining remote and office work.

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Sr. Backend Engineer I - Investment