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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** HUNTINGTON ICE & CUBE CORP.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Batch Processing, C++ (Programming Language), Databases, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, WebSocket, Backend, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/peley6t9ff

## About the Role

* A firefighter with a few burns and scars, but not burnt out! ️
 * Expertise building real-time high-throughput systems at 99.9%+ uptime SLA
 * Golang experience (or Rust or Python & C++ if no direct Golang experience)
 * Experience building async queuing systems, batch processing, pub-sub architecture, websockets,

etc.

 * Database scalability & systems-level performance optimization
 * Familiarity with infra-as-code, especially in AWS (e.g. configuring with Terraform, docker container

orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, etc.)

 * Must be able to problem-solve from a "solutions-first" and "product-first" perspective, rather than

"code-first" or "technology-first"

 * Interest or prior experience in finance (e.g. trading, quant research, banking, brokerage, crypto

exchange, etc.)

 * Some devops/SRE experience, especially with Terraform + AWS Cloudwatch stack, is a bonus!

Required Skills

['C++', 'Python']

Additional Information

Education: B.Tech from top IITs with CSE branch and 9+ cgpa Qualification Criteria:

Quantitative Developer from top HFTs of India

## Description

We're looking for scrappy self-starter backend developers familiar with high throughput distributed

systems. You'll be part of the team that hardens our core order management engine, optimizes TPS,

develops new features, expands to new asset classes, and builds core trading strategies vis-à-vis retail

order flow. You will work closely with the founders and be a key part of the technical leadership team.


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