Backend Software Engineer, Trading Systems & Data Platform
Arta Finance · Mountain View, CA
$110,000–$300,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend/systems engineering role focused on building and maintaining the core financial infrastructure of a wealth management platform — covering trading workflows, ledger and portfolio accounting, transaction reconciliation, and real-time data pipelines. The work demands strong distributed systems experience and a rigorous approach to correctness and reliability. Candidates with backgrounds in financial systems, data infrastructure, or high-throughput backend platforms are the primary target.
Senior level · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 900 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 670–1,150
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting lists three salary bands (IC I: $110K–$180K, IC II: $160K–$230K, IC III: $180K–$300K) without specifying which band this opening targets; the pay band range spans the full floor-to-ceiling across all three bands.
The role is not explicitly labeled remote — the posting notes that remote candidates may be asked to visit Mountain View HQ or NY/NJ for at least one in-person interview, indicating a hybrid or location-flexible arrangement rather than fully remote.
Python is listed with 'or similar', meaning another general-purpose backend language (e.g. Go, Java) would likely be accepted; alternatives were not named in the posting.
Kafka and Kubernetes appear in the 'Who You Are' requirements section under 'modern infra (Kafka, Kubernetes, cloud, etc.)' — treated as hard gates despite the open-ended phrasing of the list.
Experience with financial primitives (ledger, order management, reconciliation) and low-latency/high-throughput systems are called out as 'Strong Plus' — listed as preferred accordingly.
ML systems familiarity is explicitly noted as 'nice-to-have, not required' in the posting.
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