Staff Software Engineer - Margin & Risk (Fintech)

Location: Remote across the Americas or EU

Company

hirify.global provides brokerage infrastructure and developer APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and other financial products.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for margin and risk systems across equities, options, crypto, and new asset classes.
• Design and build services for margin calculations, regulatory rules, real-time exposure limits, and automated margin-call workflows.
• Lead real-time risk enforcement on the order path while balancing latency, accuracy, and safety.
• Improve throughput, state recovery, database performance, failure isolation, transactional integrity, reconciliation, and rollout safety.
• Partner with Product, Brokerage Operations, Compliance, and adjacent engineering teams on system behavior and integration boundaries.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and act as the technical escalation point for production margin and risk incidents.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend or distributed-systems experience, including ownership of consequential production systems.
• Experience designing and shipping transactional, low-latency, high-throughput systems where defects could cause financial loss, data-integrity failures, or inappropriate customer restrictions.
• Strong expertise in Go, or deep experience with Java, C++, or Rust and willingness to work primarily in Go.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including transactions, consistency, and concurrency.
• Experience with event-driven and service-oriented systems, RPC, Kafka or RabbitMQ, and Kubernetes.
• Must be able to work remotely from the Americas or EU.

Nice to have

• Margin or risk experience across multiple asset classes, especially derivatives or recently launched markets.
• Knowledge of Reg T, portfolio margin, options spread margin, or futures margin.
• Experience with brokerage, clearing, exchange, ledger, payments, or settlement systems.
• Experience with options, derivatives, workflow orchestration such as Temporal, observability, performance tuning, or production-critical migrations.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a globally distributed team of more than 400 members.
• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits.
• One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance.
• USD $150 monthly stipend through a Brex Card.