Principal Backend Development Engineer(Golang)
Tanqeeb · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ·
- Seniority
- Principal
- Category
- Backend
- Experience
- 3+ years
Designs and builds scalable, low-latency trading tool engines — including trading strategies and bots — in Go, while owning production reliability in a 24x7 environment. Core tech includes Go's concurrency model, Kafka, Redis Streams, Aeron, and observability tooling.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain trading tool modules, including trading strategies and trading bots.
- Design highly scalable and reliable trading tool engines.
- Participate in technical design reviews and code reviews.
- Build system observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and logging.
- Participate in production incident investigations and post-mortem reviews.
- Take ownership of code quality and reliability for services running in production, ensuring stability, performance, and minimal downtime (24x7 environment).
Requirements
- 3+ years of Go development experience, with a deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, memory model, and garbage collection (GC) mechanisms.
- Experience designing high-concurrency, low-latency systems, with familiarity with common performance bottlenecks and optimization techniques.
- Familiarity with messaging middlewares such as Aeron, Kafka and Redis Streams, and their applications in streaming data architectures.
- Strong engineering discipline, with an emphasis on clean, maintainable code, thorough code reviews, and a strong sense of accountability for production systems.
- Advanced English proficiency (written and verbal).
Nice to Have
- Experience with C++ and/or Java in low-latency environments.
- Familiarity with FIX protocol and SBE (Simple Binary Encoding)