



JOB POSITION- FULL TIME BACKEND ENGINEER (TRADING SYSTEMS)
Satsio is an African startup that is building a crypto exchange for both spot trading and perpetual futures trading. We have many exciting and innovative features and products in the pipeline. We are looking to add to our engineering team and we are recruiting for a full time backend engineer (trading systems).
How to apply:
After reading the job description, please complete the job application via the following link: https://forms.gle/wEdVVktX3iVLCqj59
Location
This is a fully remote position. We are accepting applications from worldwide candidates.
Remuneration
Salary range in USDT shown at the top of the advert, depending on skills, experience, and location, and subject to good performance, vesting shares of 1% of the business.
Requirements
· Proficiency in Python and expertise in working with websockets
· Proven experience in designing and implementing complex REST APIs
· Project experience with Flask and Django
· Proficient with Linux and experienced working with cloud servers
· Excellent communication skills
· Intellectually motivated and a quick learner
· Fluent in both spoken and written English
Preferences
· Proficient in C++ or another low latency language
· Experience building matching engines and trading systems
· Experience working in the crypto exchange industry
· Experience with blockchain nodes, creating blockchain wallet systems, cryptocurrency deposit and withdrawal systems and optimising network fees
· Familiar with the agile development process, Github flow, and modern software engineering practices
· Align working hours with the standard 9am-6pm UTC+1 schedule
Key Responsibilities
· Review and understand existing backend code base and make improvements where necessary
· Matching engine and improving its speed
· The system that updates user balances following user transactions and performs the necessary checks prior to permitting transactions
· Cloud server configurations and deployment and cost optimisation of resources
· Creating APIs with supporting documentation for users who trade algorithmically directly via APIs and not via the frontend
· Work on our p2p trading product and KYC process
· Building the perpetual futures trading product and integrating data from 3rd party APIs
· Performing unit tests, integrated tests, performance tests and end to end tests
· Working on various other backend tasks that the startup requires to be done
Startup culture
Our culture is one of constant innovation. Great teamwork, creativity, a passion for innovation, constantly trying to improve, being hard working, a self starter, a quick learner, taking initiative, a can do attitude, shipping product, loyalty, and having a positive mindset are all traits which we are seeking in our future colleague. We seek to create an environment whereby colleagues can see their long-term career to be with us and to flourish with us as we grow.

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Required Skills and Experience:
Proficient in Java (Java 8 and above), with a strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
Knowledge in the trading domain, including familiarity with trading systems and protocols.
Strong skills in SQL and PL/SQL for database management and query optimization.
Hands-on experience with Linux and Windows operating systems for application deployment and maintenance.
Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, or similar).
Knowledge of Python programming for auxiliary development and analytics tasks.
Familiarity with multithreading, concurrency, and low-latency application development.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (e.g., Git), and deployment workflows.
relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
● Sound knowledge and application of algorithms and data structures.
● Proficient in Java, Springboot and Mysql.
● Able to efficiently diagnose bugs and issues.
● Understanding of when to escalate questions/issues that arise during development.
● Work with other developers, QA, DevOps and business staff to efficiently launch features
and resolve issues.
● Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
● A willingness to dive deep, experiment rapidly and get things done.
● Provide input to how we can continually improve our development process and knowledge.
● Define and participate in establishing better engineering practices.
● Love being challenged by learning and experimenting with new technologies
● Experience with ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, Kakfa, AWS is a plus.
● Prior experience in building microservices, have worked on architectures and designs
independently is a plus.
● Prior product building experience or from a startup background would be a plus.

grow online businesses across multiple channels and global markets. They use data-driven tools to optimize how products are advertised and listed across marketplaces – and handle all associated shipping, logistics, taxes, and compliance.
Their business model is built on aligned incentives with no initial costs. They only makes
money if and when customers’ products sell.
They are expanding their Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team
composed of owners. They are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence.
As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential.
What you will do?
Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular
design.
Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation
and monitoring
Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have
quality in mind.
Own the full release cycle from development to deployment.
What you will need?
3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for
data retrieval and persistence.
Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection,
design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing
skills.
Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment.
Bonus if you have
Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.
Required Education:
B.Tech./ BE - Computer, IT, Electronics only
Required Skills:
- 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus


- Creating technical specifications and test plans.
- Managing defect tracking system and resolving all issues and preparing the update for systems.
- Preparing and maintaining code for various .Net applications.
- Revising, updating, refactoring, and debuging the code.
- Enhancing existing systems by analyzing business objectives, preparing an action.
What you need to have:
- Have experience of working on ASP.NET, VB.NET, C# or MVC.
- Must be good with MS SQL DB queries and optimization techniques.
- Very good in programming logic. Should be well versed with OOPS.
- Knowledge of AngularJS or ReactJS is a plus.
- Familiar with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC).
- The ideal candidate should have a good knowledge of working with Telerik Controls.
- Working in any programming language with exposure to Web services /REST API/Third-Party Integration.
- Working exposure to Test, Link, JIRA, GIT, Jenkins, Visual Studio 2015 or later, OOPs concepts, Cloud concepts.
- Good design skills using n-tier architectures (scalability, multithreading, caching, business & data layers) or SOA based application.
- Candidate must know how to work with HTML, XML, JavaScript/Jquery.
- Ability to lead the team and handle pressure and demands.
- Sound knowledge on IT concepts and latest trends.
- Excellent logical and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast paced environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
Responsibilities:
• Should have good knowledge and understanding in the following areas and you are able to apply that knowledge in delivering small and medium tasks:
• Programming language(s)
• Frameworks and libraries
• Platforms and tools
• Hands-on experience on AWS serverless services and familiarity with the environment
• Confident personality with good communication skills who can hold a conversation with a client and is not hesitant to put across his point.
• Ability to lead the calls independently in absence of a team lead
• Hands-on experience test case writing.
• Good aptitude
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to lead a group of software developers technically.
• Flexible working hours.
Requirement:
• Must have:
• NodeJS/JavaScript/Typescript
• AWS Serverless services especially lambda, S3, and DynamoDB
• Conceptual understanding of elastic cache and related services
• Restful API
• Intermediate SQL – Querying and analysis
• Microservice architecture
Nice to have:
• Typescript
• Event-Driven Architecture in cloud-like SQS
• OAuth/SAML integration
• Terraform, - would be a great addition
Benefits:
• A competitive annual salary based on experience and market demands
• Flexi-timings
• Medical insurance with the option to purchase a premium plan or HSA option for your entire family
• Business casual atmosphere
• Work from anywhere.
Experience with Hibernate and Spring.
- Experience with Spring-boot, spring MVC
- Experience with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation
- Teamwork & collaboration skills to work across organizations
- Problem solving skills to develop quick yet sound solutions to resolve complex issues
- Programming Language(s): Java, J2EE, JSON, HTML, DHTML, HTML 5, XML, EXTJS.
- Experience with XML/HTTP and Web Services
- Experience with HTML, JSP, CSS, JQuery / Ajax / JSON,
- Experience /Knowledge of Angular, React.
- Experience building J2EE based Web Applications
- Experience with MySql.




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- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
- Knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
- Knowledge on HTTP and RESTFUL API development experience
- Experience in Angular is a plus
- Proactiveness, good communication and fast learning.

