Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Asian Timezones
Description For Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Asian Timezones
Hermeneutic Investments is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their technology team, focusing on building high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure for research, trading, and data pipelines. This role is central to enabling real-time data processing and maintaining low-latency trading systems.
The position requires extensive experience with Go programming and modern distributed systems, emphasizing production-grade system design and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will work at the technical core of the firm, collaborating closely with trading, infrastructure, and data teams to create robust, observable systems.
The role offers an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in the financial trading sector, including cloud-native applications, microservices, and real-time data processing systems. The company values technical excellence, continuous improvement, and maintains high standards for system performance and reliability.
Key technical areas include Go development, distributed systems, message queues, containerization, and cloud infrastructure. The position involves working with modern tools and practices including Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and various observability solutions.
The company culture emphasizes drive, ownership, judgment, openness, competence, and resilience. They offer a structured interview process that evaluates both technical expertise and cultural alignment. This is an ideal opportunity for engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about building high-performance trading systems.
Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Asian Timezones
- Lead design and development of high-performance cloud-native backend systems using Go
- Drive engineering excellence through code quality and mentorship
- Work with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver performant solutions
- Take ownership of production services ensuring reliability and performance
- Contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD improvements
- Conduct code reviews and lead technical discussions
- Implement automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
- Deploy and manage cloud-native services
- Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production systems
Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Asian Timezones
- 5+ years of backend development experience, including 3+ years with Go in production
- Experience leading large-scale system design and mentoring engineers
- Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization in Go
- Experience with microservice architectures in high-availability environments
- Understanding of message queues and event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of REST/gRPC APIs
- Experience with networking protocols (TCP, UDP, WSS)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, and time-series databases
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools
- Experience with observability tools
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