Novaex is building an AI operating system for commodities, bringing together market data, commodity pricing, position management, hedging, and AI-driven decision intelligence into a single platform for commodity businesses.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer with 2–4 years of professional experience to help build and maintain the backend services that power our product. This is an individual contributor role for an engineer with solid backend fundamentals who can deliver well-defined features, work effectively with guidance from senior engineers, and gradually take on more responsibility.
Develop and maintain backend services and APIs with guidance from senior engineers.
Work with PostgreSQL and other data stores used by the application.
Write unit tests and contribute to integration tests.
Use logs and basic monitoring information to help troubleshoot problems.
Work with Docker and existing deployment processes.
Document relevant implementation details when needed.
Collaborate with frontend, ML, infrastructure, and other engineering teams.
2–4 years of professional software or backend engineering experience.
~ Experience building backend applications or APIs.
~ Valuable understanding of programming fundamentals and object-oriented or structured programming.
~ Experience with Go or another backend programming language.
~ Experience working with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
~ Understanding of APIs, request handling, and common backend patterns.
~ Experience writing unit tests.
~ Familiarity with Go packages, structs, interfaces, error handling, and testing.
Go experience is preferred, but strong backend engineers from other languages should also be considered.
Basic experience with Redis or another caching system.
Familiarity with Docker.
Basic exposure to Kubernetes.
Experience with AWS, GCP, or another cloud platform.