
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.

About Tradelab Technologies
About
TradeLab is a leading fintech technology provider, delivering cutting-edge solutions to brokers, banks, and fintech platforms. Our portfolio includes high-performance Order & Risk Management Systems (ORMS), seamless MetaTrader integrations, AI-driven customer engagement platforms such as PULSE LLaVA, and compliance-grade risk management solutions. With a proven track record of successful deployments at top-tier brokerages and financial institutions, TradeLab combines scalability, regulatory alignment, and innovation to redefine digital broking and empower clients in the capital markets ecosystem.
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We're Hiring: Golang Developer (3–5 Years Experience)
Location: Mumbai
We are looking for a skilled Golang Developer with strong experience in backend development, microservices, and system-level programming. In this role, you will work on high-performance trading systems, low-latency architecture, and scalable backend solutions.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain backend services using Golang
• Build scalable, secure, and high-performance microservices
• Work with REST APIs, WebSockets, message queues, and distributed systems
• Collaborate with DevOps, frontend, and product teams for smooth project delivery
• Optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure system stability
Skills & Experience Required
• 3–5 years of experience in Golang development
• Strong understanding of data structures, concurrency, and networking
• Hands-on experience with MySQL / Redis / Kafka or similar technologies
• Good understanding of microservices architecture, APIs, and cloud environments
• Experience in fintech/trading systems is an added advantage
• Immediate joiners or candidates with up to 30 days notice period preferred
If you are passionate about backend engineering and want to build fast, scalable trading systems.
10+ years of experience in web application design and development
• 10+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
• 5+ years of experience in Jenkins and must have an understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Analyze, design, develop, and maintain scalable solutions.
• Participate in code review.
• Collaborate with design team to create customer friendly solutions.
• Work with the support team to fix any bugs that arise in code.
• Perform debugging and troubleshooting of existing code base. • Good knowledge of Dockers containers. • Experience with Git/GitHub/AWS DevOps. • Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase o Experience with React-o Experience with AWS Lambda
Nice to have: Experience with building integrations with 3rd party services/tools such as:o Experience with Sinatra Experience with WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore Experience with MongoDB
Position of the role
The Principal Engineer reports to the Domain Lead and plays a key role in driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of development initiatives. The Principal Engineer collaborates with multiple teams to ensure that software solutions are scalable, cost-optimized, performant, and aligned with business objectives.
Result expectation in terms of result areas and core activities
The Principal Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex software solutions. This role involves deep technical expertise, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple teams. The Principal Engineer also acts as a thought leader, influencing technology choices, best practices, and innovation within the organization.
Main objectives of the role
✔ Leading the design and architecture of the software by following best practices that ensure scalability, maintainability, cost optimization, and high performance.
✔ Driving innovation and continuous improvements in software development practices.
✔ Providing technical mentorship and coaching to engineers across teams.
✔ Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software aligned with business requirements.
✔ Defining and maintaining coding standards, best practices, and governance frameworks.
✔ Collaborating with product management and other stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.
✔ Identifying technical debt and implementing strategies to mitigate it effectively.
✔ Promoting a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.
✔ Leading DevOps, CI/CD, and automation to improve software delivery processes and efficiency.
Specialisation
✔ Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization.
✔ Translating complex business requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions.
✔ Handling large data transformations and ensuring system efficiency under the required load conditions.
✔ Leading initiatives for modernizing the technology stack and implementing best practices.
✔ Ensuring that security, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into development processes.
✔ Driving research and development efforts to explore emerging technologies and their business impact.
✔ Enabling teams to develop and maintain high-quality software through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical strategy.
✔ Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that development aligns with business goals and user needs.
Key processes in the role
✔ Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.
✔ CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery.
✔ Cloud-native architecture, monolith and microservices-based development.
✔ Scalable and high-performance computing strategies.
✔ Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).
✔ Data-driven decision-making.
✔ Performance optimization.
Key relationships (teams and/or position titles)
✔ Engineering Teams (Developers, QA, DevOps).
✔ Head of Engineering and Technology Leadership.
✔ Product Management and Business Stakeholders.
✔ Customer Success and Solution Architects.
✔ External Technical Partners and Vendors.
Requirements
✔ Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
✔ 10+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record .
✔ Strong experience in Python and modern software engineering practices.
✔ Expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
✔ Experience in architecting and developing scalable, high-performance applications.
✔ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, and automation.
✔ Deep understanding of microservices, monolith, APIs, and distributed systems.
✔ Strong experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.
✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
✔ A passion for mentoring, coaching, and fostering a strong engineering culture.
✔ Experience in defining and implementing technical governance and best practices.
Competences
✔ Strategic Thinking - 4
✔ Analytical Problem Solving - 4
✔ Technical Leadership & Mentorship - 4
✔ Communication & Collaboration - 3
Measures of success
✔ Technical leadership impact - measurable improvements in code quality, architecture, and scalability.
✔ Delivery of high-quality software within agreed timelines and business requirements.
✔ Successful mentorship - improvement in team skill levels, problem-solving capabilities, and innovation.
✔ Reduction of technical debt through strategic refactoring and modernization.
✔ Engineering team satisfaction - based on feedback and collaboration effectiveness.
✔ Improvements in system performance, stability, cost-optimization, and security.
✔ Adoption of best practices and emerging technologies across teams.
✔ Contribution to company-wide strategic initiatives through technical innovation and leadership.
- 4+ years exp with solid backend/engineering experience.
- Knowledge of data structures and an eye for architecture.
- Solid CS fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming, a strong inclination for architecting at scale.
- Excellent technical design, problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
- Rapid prototyping worked on distributed systems at scale.
- Basic knowledge of SQL as well as NoSQL databases.
- Proficient in Golang, it's design, and concurrency patterns.
- BS in CS or EE or equivalent
- Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments
- Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Solid programming skills; preferred experience in Java, and/or Python
- Experience with modern web frameworks, advanced algorithms/data intelligence, public
- cloud platforms and streaming data pipelines
- Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
- 5+ years’ experience preferred
standing of Java and the different frameworks like Spring, etc., and have experience working on Cloud and Containers.
The Developer will perform duties and tasks to support a complete life cycle management (example: Analysis, Technical
Requirements, Design, Coding, Testing and implementation of Systems, etc.).
The Developer will work closely with the Product and Technical teams across different regions primarily Europe and will
be part of an Agile Team. The role includes research and Continuous Development of new Products based on new Tech-
nologies. This position collaborates with the operations team routinely and henceforth excellent English communication
skills (bothwritten and verbal) are essential.
A clean coder who will always leave the code in better shape than they found it.
A curious person who never stops learning and loves to try new things, even when theydon’t succeed on the
first try
A team-oriented developer with the motivation to bring out the best in others
A person who shares our appreciation for transparency and is willing to share theirexperience and knowledge
for the benefit of the team
Someone who is willing to take a stand for something they believe in.
Somebody that takes pride in their work and knows that development is a craftsmanship
Duties & Responsibilities
Conducts systems and requirements analysis, creates and contributes to task lists, cost and time analysis
Performs assigned functions and tasks to meet project plan and quality review requirements.
Raises issues as appropriate to support effective resolutions.
Analyzes specifications and user requirements to perform assigned applications development work.
Assists with system and componentdesigns to meet requirements.
Participates and documents design and code reviews to improve quality.
Analyzes, designs, codes, tests, and documents to develop application software.
Develops unit tests and unit test plans to deliver quality code.
Performs applications maintenance and support functions to support problem resolution.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or IT related field
• 4-7 years of experience working across different product domains in a product development/engineering role
• Good communication skills necessary to manage business requests and work with different teams across differ-
ent geographies and time-zones; experience working with remote and distributed teams will be an added ad-
vantage
• Hands-on working knowledge and experience is requiredin:
a. Java (Spring, Spring Boot, etc.)
b. Experience working in GCP or AWS or Azure
c. Experience working in Containers & Unix Platforms
d. Relational Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL, etc.)
e. Messaging (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka etc.)
f. Agile Methodologies (Scrum, TDD, BDD, etc.)
g. Understanding of Microservices Architecture, Domain Driver Design, Test Driven Development and
Secure Design patterns and architecture is a must
h. Data Structures and Algorithms using Java or other Programing Languages
i. Strong organizational skills
j. Agile Methodologies (Scrum, TDD, BDD, etc.)
• Experience with several of the following tools/technologies is desirable:
a. GIT (Bit Bucket, Gitlab, etc.), Jira, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, SharePoint, Eclipse/IntelliJ.
b. Multiple Java technologies around Spring, Spring Bootetc.
c. Design Patterns and implementing the Design Patterns
d. Development of Complex Application and System Architectures
e. NoSQL Databases (Redis, Mongo, etc.)
f. Experience working with CI/CD pipelines with for example GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of the following technologies is a plus:
a. Other Programming Languages (NodeJS, etc.)
b. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Tools like Jenkins, Git, etc.
c. Application Servers like Tomcat, etc.
d. HTML5, CSS, AJAX, React
e. Full stack development
f. Secure Development based on OWASP standards
JOB Description- Golang Developer
- Strong knowledge of the Go programming language
- Knowledge of common Go-routine and channel patterns
- Router packages, such as Gorilla Mux
- Development experience in embedded systems and Linux OS environments.
- Have expertise in implementing micro-services (using tools and technologies for messaging, RPC, containerization, etc.), Docker, container, Docker-swarm, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Cloud-native architecture, Virtualization, Orchestration, VNFM, MANO, VIM (Virtualization Infrastructure Management).
- LCM (Life Cycle Management of microservices and VMs) - Monitoring, Resiliency, High Availability (HA) & Scalability
- Primary Skills: Golang
- Secondary Skill: Microservices
Talent Acquisition
Sakshi Kulkarni
Website: velankanigroup.com
43, Hosur Rd, Electronics City Phase 1,
Electronic City, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560100
- Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
- Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
- Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
- Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
- Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
- Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
- Well versed in Core Java, OOPs concepts, collections, multi-threading, concurrency, lambdas, and streams.
- Hands-on knowledge of Spring Core, MVC, JPA, Security, transaction
- Working knowledge of REST API designing as well as development, using Spring.
- Exposure to Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift for the microservices environment.
- Savvy with SQL and database concepts.
- Ability to use frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc., for implementing unit testing.
- Sound understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/bit bucket with Maven.
- Should have worked in a CI/CD environment with TeamCity/Jenkins.
Responsibilities:
• Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to
deployment.
• Comply with coding standards and technical design.
• Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing and maintainability of
the code.
• Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional
system.
• Ensure unit and integration level verification plan are in place and adheres to
great quality of code at all time.
• Active participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live
system.
• Verify user feedback in making system more stable and easy.
• Work closely with analysts, designers and other peer developers.
• Preparing technical training documents for onboarding new engineers.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
• Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
• A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
• 3+ years of experience working on the server side.
Additional Requirements For Experienced Candidates:
• Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture and thorough understanding of
systems.
• Great database modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and inmemory
database (such as Redis).
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
• Competent with developing web apps in popular MVC frameworks (Django, RoR,
etc,).
• Experience with open-source projects.
• Experience in designing interactive applications.








