Senior .NET Engineer | Trading Platform Buildout
Our client is seeking a Senior .NET Engineer to join a technical environment focused on high-performance systems and low-latency data pipelines. They operate a lean, engineering-driven team responsible for building and maintaining the core backend services that power advanced trading infrastructures.
This role contributes to a broader trading execution platform encompassing market data ingestion, order routing, and portfolio-level services. Their team works within a horizontal structure, where each engineer is fully accountable for their domain-from design through to production delivery.
This position involves designing high-demand, low-latency systems that require meticulous, detail-oriented implementation.
Key Responsibilities
They expect the successful candidate to:
- Design and implement low-latency .NET microservices aligned with Clean Architecture principles
- Build background services (e.g., WebSocket consumers, FIX clients, Kafka or EventHub producers and consumers)
- Connect to financial market data sources and real-time streams
- Implement core components of an advanced trading system, including order management, portfolio logic, and market data pipelines
- Develop use case-driven business logic, fully decoupled from infrastructure
- Handle data persistence in high-throughput environments, with a focus on latency, consistency, and storage patterns
- Integrate observability features (structured logging, metrics, tracing) and implement fault-tolerant patterns
- Participate in cloud-native infrastructure decisions
- Lead the full development lifecycle from initial setup to production deployment
Technical Environment
Their platform includes:
- Language: C# (.NET 8)
- Architecture: Clean Architecture
- Infrastructure: Azure Container Apps, Azure Event Hub, Redis Cache, PostgreSQL (Timescale)
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Terraform (IaC)
- Messaging: Kafka or Redpanda
- Data Ingestion: WebSockets, REST, FIX
Ideal Candidate Profile
They are looking for someone who:
- Has 5+ years of experience in professional .NET and C# backend development
- Has experience with market data or trading systems
- Has worked with event-driven systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Event Hub
- Knows how to write, test, and scale background services in .NET
- Is comfortable with multithreading, async programming, and streaming logic
- Understands and respects system boundaries and responsibilities
- Can work close to infrastructure, including containers, CI, Terraform, and observability tooling
- Values clear, concise documentation
Bonus Skills
- Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, or Python
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