Staff Backend Engineer: Take Profit Trader
Serv Recruitment Agency
$150,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
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Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level backend engineering role at a proprietary trading firm, focused on building and owning a real-time notification platform, Kafka-based streaming pipelines, and event-driven architectures that serve trading, risk, and fraud systems. The work spans .NET Core API development, stateful stream processing, and database design, with an expectation of setting architectural direction and mentoring senior engineers across the organization. Best suited to engineers with deep distributed systems experience in high-throughput, latency-sensitive environments.
Staff level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,750 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,050–3,750
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.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (5)
The posting title is 'Staff Backend Engineer' but the body description partially conflates this role with a 'VP of Trading Risk' — the actual responsibilities and qualifications are clearly for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer, not a people-management VP role. The SOC and seniority reflect the actual engineering role described.
The requirement for 3–4+ years at Staff/Principal level is captured in the overall years minimum (10+ years overall) rather than as a separate skill, as it is a role-level experience gate.
Experience in trading, fintech, financial services, payments, fraud detection, or risk systems is listed as 'highly preferred' — not a hard gate — so it is omitted from the skills list as it names no specific technology.
AWS streaming services and infrastructure as code are listed explicitly as 'a plus' and are marked preferred accordingly.
TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, and InfluxDB are listed as interchangeable examples of time-series databases under the required qualifications; TimescaleDB is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
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