hermeneutic research
Senior Backend Engineer
RemoteTaiwan only
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
Salary not disclosed
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No BS summary
Senior Go backend engineer, 5+ yrs production backend experience and 3+ yrs in Go (or a deep backend background with agentic dev workflows). Must be in Asian timezones. Building high-performance cloud-native systems for a proprietary trading firm — needs distributed systems, microservices, Kafka, Docker/K8s, and low-latency expertise.
Core skills
Go
Required skills
KafkaRedpandaDockerKubernetesECSPostgreSQLRedisClickHouseTimescaleDBRESTgRPCTCPUDPWSS
Optional skills
RustC++PythonTerraformCloudFormationAWSGCPAzure
What you'll do
- Lead the design and development of robust high-performance, cloud-native backend systems using Go that support real-time data processing and low-latency workflows
- Drive engineering excellence through code quality, best practices, and mentorship of other team members
- Make effective use of AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to accelerate delivery, while taking full ownership of the quality, correctness, performance, and maintainability of the resulting code
- Work closely with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to understand system requirements and deliver performant solutions
- Take ownership of production services, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance tuning
- Optimize systems performance and ensure system stability, reliability, and security
- Contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD improvements to support rapid deployment and operational agility
- Conduct in-depth code reviews, lead technical discussions, and influence engineering culture and standards
- Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and participate in code reviews and design discussions
- Deploy and manage services leveraging cloud-native tools and best practices
- Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production systems and be a part of the on-call incident response team in a high-uptime environment
What they require
- 5+ years of backend development experience building and supporting production-grade systems
- 3+ years professional experience building and operating production systems in Go, or a deep professional backend engineering background combined with experience using agentic development workflows
- Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, performance, and optimization
- Experience leading large-scale system design and mentoring engineers on engineering best practices
- Proven track record of designing and deploying microservice architectures in high-availability, high-throughput environments
- Solid understanding of message queues, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing
- Strong understanding of networking data transmission protocols (TCP, UDP, WSS, etc.) and of service-to-service API design with REST/gRPC
- Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration engines (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency with message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Redpanda) and distributed systems
- Knowledge of data storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and time-series databases like ClickHouse or TimescaleDB
hermeneutic research is a best-in-class proprietary trading firm and hedge fund. It deploys research-driven discretionary and systematic strategies as well as makes strategic long-term investments.
FinanceMid-size
Salary not disclosed