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# Backend Engineer (NYC)

- **Company:** Mlabs Ltd
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $320,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Access Control List, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Trading, Database Schema, PostgreSQL, WebSocket, Backend, Low Latency, Restful APIs, Grpc, User Administration, Golang
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_3bd1de598429dfaf9d33c2744d38a7ed

## About the Role

* Golang Expertise: Strong experience as a Go engineer with a deep understanding of how to leverage AI tools effectively in the development process while maintaining rigorous validation criteria
 * Data & Schema Design: Deep expertise with database schema design, evolution, and iteration
 * Financial Domain Knowledge: Direct experience with trading systems and a strong understanding of financial concepts, instruments, and market mechanics
 * Modern Tech Stack: Hands-on experience with Postgres, NATS, Redpanda, gRPC, REST APIs, and WebSockets, * Security-Minded: A proactive approach to identifying and decreasing security attack vectors across the backend ecosystem
 * AI Power User: An engineer who utilizes AI effectively to accelerate workflows, validates all outputs critically, and implements strict technical guardrails rather than relying on unverified generation
 * Solution-Oriented: Focused on enabling internal teams and engineers to move as fast as possible by addressing requests and unblocking technical dependencies
 * Humble & Adaptive: A strong willingness to learn from quants, operations, and cross-functional engineering teams, maintaining flexibility without being attached to rigid legacy methods
 * Mission-Driven & Collaborative: A team-first competitor focused on overall organizational success, execution, and collective goals
 * Disagree and Commit: Open to voicing proposals and participating in rigorous debate, with a proven ability to fully commit to and execute decisions 100% once a path is finalized

## Description

A mid- to senior-level Backend Engineer is required to join an ambitious team focused on scaling a state-of-the-art infrastructure layer. This infrastructure is designed to allow engineering teams to self-serve 90% of their needs, enabling this role to focus entirely on high-level, high-impact projects. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with quants, infrastructure specialists, and data engineers to build a centralized pricing plane and an extremely dynamic pricing system that determines market competitiveness in real time., * Develop the Entity Service API: Build and maintain a core central configuration plane used to manage assets, mappings, market hours, data providers, smart contract parameters, algorithm parameters, and more

 * Build the Entity Service UI: Deliver an internal UI allowing team members to propose changes, review configurations, and leave comments, backed by robust Access Control Lists (ACL) and user management
 * Architect a Low-Latency Pricing System: Assist in designing and implementing a highly reliable, dynamic pricing engine capable of pricing every incoming transaction in real time to optimize liquidity attraction
 * Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with quants, infra, data, and backend engineers to establish a centralized pricing plane reflecting precise real-dollar values across every part of the system
 * Propose and Own Initiatives: Take stock of system needs, evaluate what delivers the most value, and propose independent workflows and paths forward