Staff Engineer, Trading Automation and Backend Platforms (Fintech)

TL;DR

Staff Engineer, Trading Automation and Backend Platforms (Fintech): Leading the architectural and technical direction for trading automation and backend platforms with an accent on high-throughput event-driven systems and scalability. Focus on bridging engineering, trading, and operations to reduce operational risk and decommission legacy systems.

Location: Must be based in the Amsterdam office

Company

hirify.global is a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture.

What you will do

• Define and own the long-term technical architecture for trading automation, risk, and post-trade platforms.
• Translate complex, ambiguous business problems into clear, executable technical roadmaps.
• Architect scalable, event-driven systems optimized for high throughput, data integrity, and reliability.
• Mentor senior engineers and guide tech leads to elevate engineering standards across the organization.
• Partner with trading, quant, risk, and operations teams to align technical choices with business value.
• Drive automation in post-trade and middle-office workflows to reduce operational risk.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record at a Staff or Principal level.
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and drive consensus.
• Deep expertise in building distributed, high-performance, and highly reliable backend systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one core backend language: Python, Go, C++, or Java.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Databricks, Dataproc) and data pipelines.
• Solid understanding of modern infrastructure, observability, and cloud platforms.

Nice to have

• Deep knowledge of financial workflows such as ETF creation/redemption, clearing, and custody.
• Experience with financial reference data, symbology, or instrument modeling.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks like MiFID II, EMIR, and SFTR.
• Solid background in financial services, trading, or market making.
• Strong working knowledge of the trading lifecycle from order flow to settlement.

Culture & Benefits

• Access to Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences.
• Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen.
• In-house gym, nutritionist, personal trainer, and bi-weekly massages.
• In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, and billiards.
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year.
• Global rotations across offices worldwide.