Backend Engineer

6 years

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Job Description

📈Our story: marketfeed. (YC S21)

marketfeed is a Y Combinator-backed, seed-stage startup founded by Sharique Samsudheen and Sooraj E in 2020. Our platform gives users access to trading strategies and curated investment baskets designed by SEBI-Registered Research Analysts, with the option to automate trade execution directly in their own broker accounts.We’ve built a thriving community of over 2.3 million users across social platforms and 400,000+ app users. So far, more than ₹300 crores have been invested through marketfeed.Backed by a passionate team of 50+ professionals, we’re on a mission to make wealth creation accessible and intelligent for everyone.

🕵️ Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with prior expertise in designing and developing high-performance backend systems on Cloud. This role would be responsible for building backend capabilities for our app and accelrate our growth initiatives. You’ll build backend systems that power live automated trading — where latency, reliability, and correctness directly impact real money.

💻 What You’ll Work On

  • Backend services that execute and monitor automated trades in real time
  • Designing fault-tolerant, event-driven systems (retries, idempotency, queues)
  • Improving latency, throughput, and reliability of production systems
  • Building APIs used by mobile apps and internal trading engines
  • Owning services end-to-end: design → deploy → monitor → improve

🎯 We’d Love To Have You If

  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in programming with Golang or Python
  • Strong understanding of Realtime Systems, Redis, Websockets, Event-Driven Architectures
  • Expertise in databases such as MySQL, Firestore, Realtime Database
  • Proficiency in cloud platforms like GCP and experience with CI/CD tools
  • Experience with monitoring tools and performance optimization
  • Passion for mentoring and grooming engineers
  • Curious about learning new tools, discovering innovations, setting up new processes to make us better
  • Knowledge of algorithmic trading strategies and financial markets

🎁 What’s In It For You

  • You’ll work on systems where correctness and reliability genuinely matter
  • Real ownership over critical systems
  • Direct access to leadership and fast decision-making
  • Opportunity to shape backend architecture and engineering culture as the platform scales
  • Flexible leave policy and working hours.
  • Health insurance that includes free health check-ups, unlimited doctor consultations and dental care.
  • Competitive salary with great ESOPs, annual team retreats/outings and a dog-friendly office.

💬 Interviewing with us - Hiring Process

Short virtual chats: Before diving into more in-depth interviews, you’ll typically have one or two shorter conversations over the phone or via video. These will usually be with a recruiter and then with either the hiring manager or peer on the team and are designed to assess critical skills you’ll need for the role.
  • Technical Round 1: Hands-on coding round designed to assess your problem-solving & coding skills
  • Technical Round 2: Whiteboard round where we deep dive into Cloud Design Patterns, System Design & Infrastructure Setup
  • Technical Round 3: Connect with our CTO
  • Culture Fit Round: A direct interview with our CEO & HR

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