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, clear 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.

- Solid 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