Responsibilities

Own the architecture of the Client Trading Engine, Pricing Engine, Risk Management Engine, and Smart Hedging.
Break complex, ambiguous systems into smaller components with clear contracts, explicit scope, and independent deliverability.
Set and drive the architectural vision for trading and hedging, and take large architectural bets through to completion.
Build for scale design systems that hold up as volume, venues, and currency corridors grow.
Own the observability standard across all components, so the behavior of the trade and risk path is legible when it matters.
Design meaningful alerting, fallback, and recovery strategies across systems.
Coach and mentor engineers on the team, and raise the technical bar through design reviews and feedback.
Partner with product, risk, and the two pod EMs to connect architectural decisions to TPV, gross revenue, and net revenue outcomes.

Requirements

7-12 years of experience building and operating production backend systems.
Deep experience with distributed systems consistency, failure modes,



and the trade-offs between them.
Experience building orchestrators and complex, long-running workflows that must be durable and recoverable.
Strong command of databases at scale, sharding, multi-region deployments, and the data protection constraints that shape them.
Track record on high-scale systems, including the observability and operational tooling that keeps them healthy.
Comfort with abstract, ambiguous problems: you're the person who turns a vague mandate into scoped, sequenced deliverables.
Hands-on. You still write code, and your architectural judgment comes from building.
Heavy AI user. You use AI coding tools with real technique and get materially more done because of it.
Influential and collaborative. You set direction by inspiring and persuading people, not by relying on authority.
Data-driven, and you operate with high agency; you find the important problem and go solve it.

📌 Backend Developer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Alion
📍 Bengaluru