Tradeify
Senior Front-End Engineer
Florida 6h ago
Tradeify
At Tradeify, we are building a high-performance trading ecosystem that empowers traders around the world with capital, technology, education, and community. We operate across futures and crypto markets and partner with platforms like NinjaTrader and Tradovate to deliver a best-in-class trading experience.
As we continue scaling rapidly, technology sits at the center of everything we do. We are looking for a talented Backend Engineer who thrives in building the systems, services, and infrastructure that power a high-performance trading platform.
We are hiring a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the core services and infrastructure behind the Tradeify ecosystem. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working deep in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and high-throughput APIs — and who takes ownership of reliability and performance at scale.
You will work closely with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver robust backend systems that directly power the experience of traders globally. This is a hands-on role based out of our Boca Raton, FL office.
Design and build performant, scalable REST APIs and WebSocket services
Develop and maintain backend microservices using Python, Node.js, Go, or C#
Own features end-to-end from schema design through deployment and monitoring
Build integrations with third-party trading platforms, market data providers, and internal tools
Design and optimize relational and NoSQL data models across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB
Build and maintain event-driven pipelines and message queue systems
Work with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized deployments
Manage caching strategies, background job processing, and async workflows
Ensure system reliability, security, and performance across all environments
Implement observability — logging, metrics, alerting, and distributed tracing
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation
Participate in architecture discussions and technical planning sessions
Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable backend code
Troubleshoot production incidents and drive root cause resolution
4+ years of backend software engineering experience
Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages: Python, Node.js, Go, or C#
Deep experience designing and building scalable REST APIs and WebSocket services
Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and query optimization
Experience with caching layers (Redis, Memcached) and async processing patterns
Familiarity with message brokers and event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, or similar)
Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Docker/Kubernetes
Strong grasp of system design principles — distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability
Ability to work independently and move quickly in a startup environment
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Experience within fintech, trading, crypto, or financial systems
Exposure to real-time systems or market data applications (order books, tick data, trade execution)
Experience with high-volume or time-series data systems such as TimescaleDB or ClickHouse
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi)
Experience with gRPC or other binary protocols for low-latency service communication
Background in building compliance, risk, or audit trail systems
Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and engineering automation
Join a rapidly scaling fintech and trading platform
Work on products used by a global community of traders
High ownership and ability to make direct impact
In-office environment in Boca Raton, FL with a fast-moving startup culture
Opportunity to work across APIs, infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform architecture
Collaborative, ambitious, and highly driven team environment
Tradeify
Tradeify