Backend Developer

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services. 

We are looking for a Backend Developer to join the team.   
 

Our current project involves developing one of the leading trading platforms in the USA, serving a user base of over 200,000 online users daily across desktops, mobile devices, and the web. 
 

The responsibilities of the platform's backend services include handling all business processes related to trading, such as order issuance, validation, routing, execution, option price calculation, and reconciliation. We prioritize high performance, low latency, and fault tolerance in our day-to-day tasks. We ensure code quality by performing careful code reviews and various types of testing. 
 

Teams co-exist in a Scrum/Kanban environment backed by the Atlassian suite, Slack, TeamCity, Sonar, Docker, etc. 
 

Teams are multi-cultural and distributed, typically consisting of 3-7 BE engineers balanced by QAs, FEs, BAs, etc. 
 

Major parts of the stack: 
 

• Python or GO development 
• Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, and Presto, 
• SQL, Postgre, Kafka, 
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
   

Working hours: availability is required until 10:00 PM in Georgia to support collaboration with the team and stakeholders working in the Pacific Time Zone.

What we expect from candidates: 
 

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in backend software development,
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend technologies such as Java, Python, C#, or similar,
• Passion for coding,
• Foundation in computer science data structures, algorithms and their complexities,
• Desire to optimize, document and maintain code, as well as carefully cover it with tests,
• Willingness and energy to take your ideas all the way from proof of concept to production-proof code,
• General responsibility and result-oriented mindset,
• Desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues and ability to provide/accept constructive feedback,
• B2+ English to be able to communicate with multicultural teams and a US customer.
   

Considered a plus: 
 

• Trading and capital markets background,
• Hands-on experience in concurrent programming and understanding of thread synchronization approaches,
• Exposure to distributed systems, following strong performance and reliability requirements,
• Foundation in asynchronous communications,
• Solid Unix/Linux knowledge.

Care for the employees is one of Devexperts' core values. For the suggested position, we offer a benefits package that will guarantee the comfort of our new teammate.  
 

Flexibility benefits: 
 

• Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode in Georgia, 
• Flexible working hours. 
   

Health and recreation benefits: 
 

• 24 working days of paid vacation, 
• Fully paid additional wellness days (3 days per year),
• FitPass (sport and related activities) access,
• Medical insurance - VIP package. 
   

Facility benefits: 
 

• Modern office with new equipment, 
• PlayStation and table football in the office, 
• Meals in the office, 
• Free drinks and snacks. 
   

Community benefits: 
 

• Teambuilding activities, 
• Corporate parties, 
• Football club, 
• Billiard club,
• Speakers' club, 
• Free admission to corporate external events, 
• Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs, 
• Personal branding development support.  
   

Professional training benefits: 
 

• Georgian language courses for foreign employees, 
• Unlimited access to self-learning platforms, 
• Certification opportunities, 
• Mentorship Program. 
   

Social benefits: 
 

• Parental bonus, 
• Referral bonus, 
• Blood donation paid leave, 
• Gifts for employees, 
• Gifts for children.