Senior Backend Engineer (Exchange)

Pt Pintu

Software Engineering

Jakarta, Indonesia

Posted on Jan 9, 2025

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Engineering · Jakarta

Senior Backend Engineer (Exchange)

At PINTU, We are building the #1 crypto investment platform to focus on new investors in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. We know that 99% of new investors are underserved because existing solutions cater to the 1% who are pros and early adopters hence we built an app that helps them to learn, invest and sell cryptocurrencies in one click away.

We're looking for Senior Backend Engineer (Exchange) to join in building, operating, and evolving an error-free, low-latency, high capacity and throughput, next-gen Crypto Exchange, its back-end software systems that serve millions of customers (retail or institutional investors, B2B2C clients, market makers).

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you will:

Analyze Business/Product requirements and propose effective and efficient technical solutions in delivering changes and innovations to the Pintu exchange system landscape within expected parameters of cost, time, and quality
Work with a project focus group (product engineering, product management, business strategic) to compile a work breakdown structure of tasks for given deliverables and provide realistic estimates for completion or project assignments
Develop and unit test all functional modules created or modified according to software development best practices
Develop and maintain the respective operational benchmarking and monitoring models for all landscape modules related to the Pintu exchange infrastructure
Collaborate with other Developers, SREs, and QA Engineers to execute full-cycle integration, and functional and regression testing. Own and resolve all priority defects identified within the solution codebase efficiently and in a timely fashion
Promote software changes across all environments, safely and responsibly, through Development and Staging environments to deploy updates to the Production environment in a zero-downtime manner
Provide on-call technical support during business and, occasionally, off hours depending on rotation
Participate in team exercises to identify and implement areas for continuous improvement, and be proactive in bringing your ideas across
Educate and mentor your engineering colleagues in the areas of your own expertise and domain knowledge, and be open-minded and approachable

Who We Are Looking For

Mininum 5 years of experience working as a back-end software engineer.
Mininum 2 years of experience working in the financial technology domain (exchanges, proprietary trading firms, banking, market makers, brokers, digital payments)
Solid understanding of the general financial tech components including transaction and balance ledger.
Experience in building efficient and robust application-level networking messaging protocols for internal services communication
Experience working in small focus teams of high-skilled developers.
Experience in writing clear technical documentation in English.

Necessary Skills

Solid hands-on experience in Go
Hand-on experience with the Continuous Integration principles (unit testing, pull requests, GitHub, or any specific continuous integration engine like GitLab/Jenkins/etc.)
Solid hands-on experience in building and operating back-end monitoring systems, which includes
- operational monitoring
- performance monitoring
Understanding or messaging protocol engines and models (gRPC, Protobuf, Thrift, Avro, etc.)
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP and UDP networking protocols.
Knowledge HTTP/HTTP, QUIC and web sockets is a plus
Strong knowledge of code analysis and profiling techniques and tools
Personal: self-sufficient with good hard and soft skills, committed and responsible, able to perform well under pressure

Preferred/Bonus Skills

Experience working with Application Containers and Container Orchestrators (example: Kubernetes or Nomad)
Experience working under Continuous Delivery and Zero-Downtime models (for example blue-green deployments, canary deployments, etc.)
Solid understanding or, better, working experience of the Disruptor pattern or any other fast host-level IPC technique
Experience working with message broker technologies (for example RocketMQ, Kafka, etc.)
Knowledge of Google Cloud and AWS Cloud Infrastructure and components (products)
Good understanding or experience in Scrum methodology
Understanding various trading models, types of trading, and rationale behind trading and market making
- a solid plus goes to candidates that are doing any of the crypto trading (or any other asset classes) themselves on a private basis
Experience working in the crypto industry. Experience in developing high-load and high-throughput systems engines.
Solid understanding of the crypto operating principles and various order type models (Market, Limit, GTC, FOK, OCO, Take-Profit, Stop-Loss, etc)

Let’s Realise a Cryptocurrency Bank for Everyone!

We are building the #1 cryptocurrency bank for everyone to accelerate the transition to an open financial system

We have impacted many lives but there’s still plenty to do and we can’t do it alone. You can learn more about us

What is PINTU?
PINTU is a blockchain-based digital investment app that focuses on new investors. We have created a user-friendly app that helps new investors to learn, buy and invest cryptocurrency one click away.

Our agility and firm hold on our core purpose and values have allowed us to remain resilient and thrive through tumultuous times.

Learn more about PINTU here.