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Principal Backend Development Engineer(C++)

Unlock employer Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Direct to Company Under an hour ago · 02 Oct 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $60k - $120k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Intermediate
  • English: Fluent

Position

About the Role
Join a leading cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform as a developer focused on creating and maintaining advanced trading tools. You will be instrumental in designing systems that support trading strategies and bots, contributing to a seamless trading experience for users. This role demands a proactive approach to system performance, observability, and reliability, ensuring that our tools meet high standards in a 24/7 environment.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain trading tool modules, including trading strategies and trading bots.
  • Design highly scalable and reliable trading tool engines.
  • Participate in technical design reviews and code reviews.
  • Build system observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and logging.
  • Participate in production incident investigations and post-mortem reviews.
  • Take ownership of code quality and reliability for services running in production, ensuring stability, performance, and minimal downtime.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of Go development experience, with a deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, memory model, and garbage collection (GC) mechanisms.
  • Experience designing high-concurrency, low-latency systems, with familiarity with common performance bottlenecks and optimization techniques.
  • Familiarity with messaging middlewares such as Aeron, Kafka and Redis Streams, and their applications in streaming data architectures.
  • Strong engineering discipline, with an emphasis on clean, maintainable code, thorough code reviews, and a strong sense of accountability for production systems.
  • Advanced English proficiency (written and verbal).

Nice to Have

  • Experience with C++ and/or Java in low-latency environments.
  • Familiarity with FIX protocol and SBE (Simple Binary Encoding).

Why Join Us
We are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment. Our benefits include:

  • Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.
  • Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.
  • Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.
  • Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.
  • Internal Mobility: Grow with us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.
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