Principal - Senior Staff Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Establish the long-term technical strategy and architecture for the exchange platform, ensuring alignment with business and regulatory objectives.

• Lead technical initiatives at the company level that have ambiguous scopes and significant business risks or opportunities.

• Make crucial decisions regarding scalability, resilience, and security for systems operating in a CFTC-regulated environment.

• Assess and implement new technologies, make build-versus-buy decisions, and set engineering practices at an organizational level.

• Provide guidance to executive and product leadership on technical feasibility, risk assessment, and investment strategies.

• Mentor employees and senior engineers, and contribute to shaping hiring practices, career progression, and engineering culture.

• Represent ProphetX’s engineering capabilities to partners, regulators, and the broader technical community when appropriate.

• Collaborate with product and leadership teams to influence the roadmap and prioritization with technical insights.

• Actively seek development opportunities and share knowledge with peers and junior engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in backend and distributed systems, demonstrating a history of organizational or company-wide technical impact.

• Expert-level proficiency in Go, Java, C++, or Python, along with extensive knowledge in large-scale system design.

• Proven experience in architecting and evolving mission-critical, low-latency, high-availability platforms (such as exchanges, trading systems, payments, or similar).

• Mastery of event-driven architecture, real-time APIs, data systems, and cloud-native infrastructure.

• Extensive experience with reliability, security, and compliance in regulated environments.

• A background in mentoring and developing senior and staff engineers.

• Exceptional skills in communication and influence, effective from engineers to executives.

• Proactive, growth-oriented, and highly adaptable with a strong sense of ownership.

• Experience in prediction markets, fintech, sports betting, or exchange operations is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation that reflects the role and market standards.

• Equity opportunities that allow you to share in the success of what we are building.

• A clear link between your impact and the rewards you receive.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Flexible time off based on trust and accountability.

• A culture that values your time and minimizes unnecessary meetings.

• Fully remote working opportunities within the U.S.

• The flexibility to work in a manner that enables you to perform at your best.