Backend Developer

Backend Developer
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and
- made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and
- side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services.

Job Description

We are looking for a Backend Developer to join the team.

Our current project involves developing one of the leading trading platforms in the USA, serving a user base of over 200, 000 online users daily across desktops, mobile devices, and the web.

The responsibilities of the platform's backend services include handling all business processes related to trading, such as order issuance, validation, routing, execution, option price calculation, and reconciliation. We prioritize high performance, low latency, and fault tolerance in our
-
- day tasks. We ensure code quality by performing careful code reviews and various types of testing.

Teams
- exist in a Scrum/Kanban environment backed by the Atlassian suite, Slack, Team
City, Sonar, Docker, etc.

Teams are
- cultural and distributed, typically consisting of 3-7 BE engineers balanced by QAs, FEs, BAs, etc.

Major parts of the stack:

• Python or GO development
• Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, and Presto,
• SQL, Postgre, Kafka,
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.

What we expect from candidates:

• 3+ years of
  - on experience in backend software development
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend technologies such as Java, Python, C#, or similar
• Passion for coding
• Foundation in computer science data structures, algorithms and their complexities
• Desire to optimize, document and maintain code, as well as carefully cover it with tests
• Willingness and energy to take your ideas all the way from proof of concept to
  - proof code
• General responsibility and
  - oriented mindset
• Desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues and ability to provide/accept constructive feedback
• B2+ English to be able to communicate with multicultural teams and a US customer

Considered a plus:

• Trading and capital markets background
• Hands-on experience in concurrent programming and understanding of thread synchronization approaches
• Exposure to distributed systems, following strong performance and reliability requirements
• Foundation in asynchronous communications
• Solid Unix/Linux knowledge

Additional Information

Work Regime Flexibility benefits:

• Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode,
• Flexible working hours.

Health and recreation benefits:

• Fully paid additional wellness days (3 unwell days per year),
• Medical insurance for the employees and children,
• Reimbursement of fitness / Urban Sports Club Membership,
• Meal allowance (Coverflex Card),
• Flexpay system (Coverflex).

Facility benefits:

• Modern office with new equipment,
• Play
  Station, table football, and musical instruments in the office,
• Parking spaces,
• Free drinks and snacks.

Community benefits:

• Teambuilding activities,
• Corporate parties,
• Football Club,
• Music club,
• Speakers' club,
• Free admission to corporate external events,
• Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs,
• Personal branding development support.

Professional training benefits:

• Local language courses for foreign employees,
• Unlimited access to
  - learning platforms,
• Certification opportunities,
• Mentorship Program.

Social benefits:

• Parental bonus,
• Pension plan (Coverflex),
• Referral bonus,
• Blood donation paid leave.