Backend Developer (Golang)

Location: Bengalore, India, Exp: 3-5 Yrs

Backend Developer (Golang) - Trading & Fintech

About Us:

Tradelab Technologies Pvt Ltd is not for those seeking comfort—we are for those hungry to make a mark in the trading and fintech industry. If you are looking for just another backend role, this isn’t it. We want risk-takers, relentless learners, and those who find joy in pushing their limits every day. If you thrive in high-stakes environments and have a deep passion for performance driven backend systems, we want you.

What we expect:

 You should already be exceptional at Golang. If you need hand-holding, this isn’t the place for you.

 You thrive on challenges, not on perks or financial rewards.

 You measure success by your own growth, not external validation.

 Taking calculated risks excites you—you’re here to build, break, and learn.

 You don’t clock in for a paycheck; you clock in to outperform yourself in a high-frequency trading environment.

 You understand the stakes—milliseconds can make or break trades, and precision is everything.

What you will do:

 Develop and optimize high-performance backend systems in Golang for trading platforms and financial services.

 Architect low-latency, high-throughput microservices that push the boundaries ofspeed and efficiency.

 Build event-driven, fault-tolerant systems that can handle massive real-time data streams.

 Own your work—no babysitting, no micromanagement.

 Work alongside equally driven engineers who expect nothing less than brilliance.

Must have skills:

 Learn faster than you ever thought possible.

 Proven expertise in Golang (if you need to prove yourself, this isn’t the role for you).

 Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and system design.

 Experience with Trading, market data processing, or low-latency systems.

 Strong knowledge of distributed systems, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and real-time processing.

 Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

 A portfolio of work that speaks louder than a resume.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

 Past experience in fintech, trading systems, or algorithmic trading.

 Contributions to open-source Golang projects.

 A history of building something impactful from scratch.

 Understanding of FIX protocol, WebSockets, and streaming APIs.

Why Join Us?

 Work with a team that expects and delivers excellence.

 A culture where risk-taking is rewarded, and complacency is not.

 Limitless opportunities for growth—if you can handle the pace.

 A place where learning is currency, and outperformance is the only metric that matters.

The opportunity to build systems that move markets, execute trades in microseconds, and redefine fintech. This isn’t just a job—it’s a proving ground. Ready to take the leap? Apply now.

Job Title: Golang Developer (Full-time)

Location: Pune (Onsite)

Experience Required: 3+ Years

Working Days: 5 Days (Mon to Fri)

Job Description

• Good problem solving skills and computer science fundamentals.
• Excellent programming skills and deep interest in programming.
• Must have developed projects in the past, hands on experience is must.
• Must think logically and be a self-motivated problem solver
• Should be eager to learn and have demonstrated learning process
• Good to have credentials with hackerrank / hackerearth or similar portals
• Should be excellent in Communication Skills
• Good to have understanding of the end-to-end Web application development.

Technical Attributes:

• Must have good hands on experience with Golang & surrounding frameworks.
• Good to have knowledge in UI technologies like HTML, CSS, any Javascript framework.
• Brownie points for knowing Git Version Control.
• Must have familiarity with RESTful Web service development.
• Must have familiarity with RDBMS - Postgres / MySQL or any. Non relational database is
• a plus.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain application.
• Follow best coding practices, and create a code that you are proud of, with extensibility, scalability and performance in mind.
• Work in cross functional teams with product managers, UX designers, and QA engineers
• to ship software on-quality and on-time.
• Takes accountability and end-to-end ownership for assigned tasks.

The tech stack looks like the below (expect this to change as we scale):

1. Typescript for APIs (REST and GraphQL)
2. Kafka, Spark, and data warehouses for ML pipelines (spark on python/scala)
3. Solidity + hardhat for smart contracts (in the future, rust, go and move)
4. AWS & Terraform
5. Full nodes

You can expect to do some or all of the following:

1. Read through protocols’ whitepapers and smart contracts to derive metrics and analyze risks
2. Architect the backend for APIs, async jobs, and blockchain integration
3. Build clean, concise APIs for customer integration, along with the documentation
4. Setup, run and maintain full and archive nodes across different chains
5. Integrate with multiple partners like exchanges and custody providers
6. Fool-proof security across the stack - encryption, hashing, privacy, VPC, etc.
7. Infrastructure as code - build terraform scripts and ensure easy replication of the infra across different regions
8. Research the top DeFi protocols to uncover better insights for our customers and evaluate their risk profiles, security, and historical returns
9. Manage production deployments, logging, and monitoring

We expect you to be fairly comfortable with working with both web3 and web2 stacks. We do not expect that you have web3 experience on day 1, but you should be willing to wear multiple hats, learn things quickly and move fast.

1. Generalist, a solid engineer who can learn things on your own and have an eye for clean, tested, and well-documented code
2. We don’t look at the number of years of work experience as a criterion, but rather see what you have done in your life so far (side projects, open-source contributions, blogs, etc.). We don’t care about degrees, the institutions you went to, or the companies you worked for before. We are open to talking as long as you have good judgment, great clarity, align with our values and have a strong track record of thoughtful work
3. Understand the fundamentals of building and integrating APIs and secure systems. Bonus if you know a bit about blockchains and protocols
4. You can be strong on the backend, front-end, or can dabble everywhere. We want you to play to your strengths and will provide enough opportunities to learn and do things outside of your comfort zone

Pay and benefits We offer a solid, competitive package (including early-stage equity) that is location agnostic. We give you the flexibility to choose the split between cash and equity.

Desired Experience

3+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
• The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis

What you bring to the table

• 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Python & Go / Java & Node / Rust
• Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Great communication skills

Bonus if you have…

• Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
• Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
• Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
• Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency

About Wise

Wise is digital infrastructure for online education. Oversimplified as ‘Shopify for Tutors’ i.e., an easy to use tool for tutors to start teaching online. We have grown to 2mn users in 12 months and have much to do. We are backed by an incredible set of investors and individuals who have built product you already use. We have a small but rockstar team, cheap equity, smart money, opportunity to capture a huge market ($60bn) and a chance to make an impact while doing so.

What we need

We need you, if you are a senior software engineer with 4+ years of experience in building robust scalable systems. Work would involve building things quickly and adapting based on market feedback while ensuring the security and quality of the codebase. If you love coding and building things excites you, we would like to talk to you.

What you will need (Skills)

• Experience building microservices and distributed systems, RESTful APIs, user interfaces
• Knowledge and will of writing unit, integration tests is a must. TDD is a plus
• Preferably a polyglot: Strong command Ruby/Golang/Java/Python
• Some exposure to infra: Deployments, CI/CD setup, security. AWS exposure is good to have
• Strong database concepts. Experience with MongoDB is a plus

What you will do

• Feature analysis, hands on development, code reviews, deployment & rollouts
• Passionately maintain coding practices, quality & good design standards
• Design and develop highly scalable, available, secure and fault tolerant systems
• Actively contribute in assessing & improving/optimizing security & infrastructure

Great to have

• Sense of ownership
• Developers who can talk product and strategy
• Experience in building scalable consumer products
• Strong opinions, loosely held

Good to have

• Interest in mentorship
• Good written communication skills
• Bangalore love

Probably not ideal if

• If you have always been right about stuff in life
• No flexibility around working hours (this doesn’t mean we work long hours but if our systems get attacked in the middle of the night, we would need you to HODORR!)

Definitely get in touch if you

• Would have started the exact same company but willing to build it together with a great team
• Find our current product unbearably slow or inadequate
• Think this company isn’t going to work as it is right now

Tech Stack:

Golang, Microservices (AWS ECS, App Mesh), Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, NATS.

Required Skills:

- 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails OR 2+ years of experience with Golang.

- 5+ years of experience with MySQL or Postgres and relational data modelling.

- Experience consuming and writing REST APIs.

- Focus on writing clear, maintainable, tested code.

- Experience with Git, continuous integration and regular deployments.

- Experience with complex Rails projects and design principles.

- Strong willingness to learn and use Golang at work.

- Experience with CI (continuous integration).

- Strong understanding of Linux.

- Strong understanding of Docker.

- You must be a strong communicator who can explain complex ideas to anyone regardless of background.

Preferred Skills:

- 2+ years of experience with Golang.

- Experience with Microservices deployed in Kubernetes.

- Experience with AWS ECS, App Mesh and Lambda.

- Ability and interest in mentoring junior engineers a plus.

- Excellent written communication skills and diligent ability to contribute to the team by performing code reviews.

- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience