Senior Back End Engineer (JAP Client)

Job title: Senior Back End Engineer Digital Assets Client Platform
Location: Abu Dhabi
Reports to: Senior Management

Job purpose
Our client is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Back-end Engineer specializing in building digital assets web platform using C#. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of robust, scalable, and secure trading systems. They are looking for a dedicated, methodical, versatile and business-focused senior software engineer with the experience and passion to solve tough problems with scalable, high-performance code.

As a Senior Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining our client’s unique digital asset fully integrated custody, trading and investment platform. You will leverage your expertise in C# to create efficient and reliable solutions that enable seamless trading experiences for their users. This position offers the chance to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, contributing to the growth and success of their platform.

Duties and responsibilities

1. Client Platform Development:
   Design, implement, and maintain high-performance digital assets client platform using C#. Maintain complex cloud-native back-end systems in microservices architecture.
2. Collaboration:
   Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, frontend developers, and system architects, to understand requirements and deliver integrated solutions.
3. Optimization:
   Identify and implement optimizations to enhance the performance and efficiency of the platform. Conduct code reviews to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.
4. Security:
   Implement and enforce security best practices to safeguard the integrity of the platform. Stay informed about the latest industry standards and security trends in the cryptocurrency space.
5. Documentation:
   Create comprehensive and well-structured technical documentation for APIs, ensuring ease of use for internal and external developers.
6. Troubleshooting and Support:
   Collaborate with other engineers, product team, customer support, compliance, legal, quants and traders to diagnose and resolve technical issues related to the platform. Provide technical support as needed to ensure the smooth functioning of the platform for our customers.

Skills and Experience (essential to any successful application)
Minimum 10 years of industry experience with a concentration in building back-end systems in financial services.
Strong knowledge and experience building back-end systems on the Microsoft stack (.NET, C#, Entity Framework, ASP.NET Web API, Blazor).
Experience working on a collaborative and agile team, leveraging issue tracking, source control, and CI/CD workflows, with full traceability between requirements and code.
A proven track record of building modular and loosely coupled systems and services that can be deployed with little or no downtime.
Strong ability to troubleshoot production issues leveraging monitoring and diagnostic tools and analysis of application and services log.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Commitment to the highest ethical standards while working with sensitive data.
Experience in developing cloud-native applications on AWS leveraging services such as ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, and SQS.
Experience (personal or professional) working with cryptocurrencies, examples include trading digital assets, using crypto platforms, and transferring coins on blockchain.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.