Senior GoLang Developer (Trading Systems)

TL;DR

Senior GoLang Developer (Trading Systems): Building and optimizing high-performance, low-latency trading microservices with an accent on CPU/memory optimization, concurrency patterns, and resilient distributed services. Focus on designing optimal architectural solutions and independently investigating complex tasks within a cross-functional team.

Location: Hybrid (UAE, Cyprus, or UK)

Company

hirify.global Group, founded in 1998, provides leveraged trading for over 2 million customers through global brands like FXTM and Nemo, offering access to equity, commodity and FX markets across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

What you will do

• Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput trading microservices in Go.
• Optimize performance across CPU, memory, GC, lock-free structures, and batching strategies.
• Implement efficient concurrency patterns and build resilient distributed services with failover and back-pressure handling.
• Interact with Product Owners/Business Analysts to design flows, logical schemes, and algorithms.
• Conduct cross-team code reviews, propose improvements, and exchange experience with peers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Golang, including deep understanding of concurrency (goroutines, channels, sync, atomics).
• Strong experience implementing microservices using event-driven and RPC-based communication (NATS, Kafka, gRPC, REST).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis, MongoDB) including query optimization and schema design.
• Understanding of containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure as code tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible).
• Solid experience with at least one message queue/broker (Kafka, NATS, Redis Streams).
• Experience in building high-load systems with low latency.
• Strong debugging and profiling skills (pprof, flamegraphs, tracing).

Nice to have

• Experience developing systems for Forex/CFD trading, including knowledge of market data streams, order execution flows, risk engines, and liquidity provider integrations.
• Knowledge of efficient binary protocols: Protobuf, SBE, FlatBuffers.
• Experience with high-performance in-memory data structures.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Understanding of FIX API integrations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid Working Policy.
• Discretionary performance-related bonus.
• Personalized Flex-Benefits.
• Focus on your wellbeing, including talks and access to self-development tools.
• Medical insurance for employees.
• Comprehensive leave package of 40 days inclusive of Public Holidays.