Backend Architect

The world’s largest financial analysis platform is looking for an architect.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Design: Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance backend architectures that align with our business needs.
• Technology Selection: Evaluate and recommend the most suitable backend technologies, frameworks, and tools.
• Specification Review: Analyze, refine, and approve specifications and technical requirements for service development across teams.
• System Integration: Collaborate with teams to ensure seamless integration between backend systems, frontend components, databases, third-party services, and APIs.
• Scalability, Performance & Reliability: Design systems that can handle high traffic loads while ensuring optimal performance and scalability. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through profiling, tuning, and optimization. Guarantee high availability where required.
• Code Quality & Standards: Define and enforce coding standards, best practices, and guidelines to maintain high code quality and readability.
• Documentation: Ensure comprehensive technical documentation of internal systems, including architectural diagrams, API specifications, data storage descriptions, and deployment procedures.
• Problem Solving: Analyze complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions to resolve them in a timely manner.

What makes you the perfect fit

• 10+ years of experience in backend development (our stack includes Go, Java, and Python), with at least 3 years in an architect role focused on distributed, high-load systems.
• Strong background in object-oriented design, multithreading, SQL/NoSQL databases, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or similar platforms.
• Solid knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong engineering mindset—thoughtful judgment, analytical thinking, the ability to reason abstractly, a healthy level of bias backed by experience, openness to alternative opinions, and a collaborative attitude.
• Proficiency in writing clear and structured technical documentation.

What we offer you

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work format.
• Well-equipped offices for focused and collaborative work.
• A global, distributed team of 500+ professionals.
• Learning, mentorship, and long-term career growth.
• Relocation support and private health insurance.
• Performance-based bonuses.
• Regular team events and company-wide meetups.