Software Engineer - Database (Remote - Selected Countries)

This is a remote software engineering role on the database side of a regulated derivatives trading platform, which is part of a larger global financial infrastructure company. The exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage systems are built largely in a functional, strongly typed language. You will help record every order, fill and settlement reliably, with the database treated as a core part of the design.

What you'll do

• Build, test and ship features and fixes in backend services across the exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage
• Understand order, trade, clearing and settlement flows from end to end
• Design schemas, constraints, indexes and audit trails that keep financial values exact
• Write lock-safe, reversible migrations for large tables and review other engineers' migrations
• Use execution plans and production metrics to find slow queries and fix the root cause
• Support on-call and daily operations such as settlement cycles, and document what you learn from production issues

What you need

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with a functional or strongly typed language such as Haskell, Rust or C++
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including transactions and isolation levels
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, concurrency and distributed systems, including replication, consistency, retries and idempotency
• Willingness to take part in on-call and operational shifts, with a calm, methodical approach under pressure
• Careful, rigorous approach to code and data that move money, with a habit of measuring before tuning and asking why before changing things
• Ability to work with engineering, operations, risk and compliance teams, and to read, test and understand any AI-generated code before shipping it

Applicants must be based in: South Africa, Uae.

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