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Senior Backend Engineer, Core Trading Systems
$200K–$260K
New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate MAG’s core trading engine and backend systems for market-making across prediction-market and event-contract venues.
What you'll do
- Develop trading, market-data, order-management, and risk-control systems with reliable real-time behavior.
- Build high-throughput infrastructure, APIs, and integrations for trading venues and clients.
- Collaborate with traders and engineering teams on execution, reliability, performance, and production operations, including on-call coverage.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or C++; knowledge of concurrent programming, event-driven architectures, and relational databases.
- Understanding of CAP tradeoffs, ordering semantics, and consistency/availability considerations.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and cross-team collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed or real-time systems.
- Experience with matching engines, market-making systems, order books, HFT infrastructure, Kafka, Redis, real-time streaming systems, or financial exchanges.
Pay
$200k – $260k USD base salary
Tools
Go, Rust, C++, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis
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