Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Traydstream is an innovative technology company that has built a powerful AI‑driven platform by trade experts for trade experts.

Powered by machine learning, our software digitises trade documents and automates the trade and compliance checking processes.

Errors and discrepancies are automatically highlighted with the press of a button – saving time and giving peace of mind to reduce operational and compliance risks.

Our vision is to simplify trade finance using innovation to automate laborious manual processes and deliver unrivalled quality and accuracy. Our document‑checking platform is the first part of that journey.

A Senior Engineer takes on technical problems related to the team and works harmoniously with the entire team to help it reach its goals. They can be relied upon to independently lead on the design and implementation of complex features and own the delivery of big projects or major changes to existing systems.

They lead by example when it comes to quality production systems that can be maintained and managed with ease. Good documentation, alerts, and runbooks are inherently linked with their delivery. Being both technically competent and able to articulate challenging technical topics, they consistently direct their impact to the highest‑leverage areas, whether mentoring others in the team or driving architecture changes and refactoring.

• Contributes to the team or domain meeting goals through successfully leading and consistently delivering on projects of ambiguous scope and/or high complexity.
• Proactively contributes to the betterment of other engineers in the company through sponsoring, mentoring and providing constructive, candid feedback.
• Proactively gives technical and strategic feedback on projects relevant to their expertise that leads to better outcomes.
• Relied upon to be a trusted problem solver, capable of leading the resolution of critical bugs or incidents related to their work or area of expertise.

• Consistently leads projects, squads and areas to good outcomes from a technical perspective, ensuring engineering decisions incorporate technical debt, systems design, stability/reliability, monitoring/observability, and business need.
• Proposes changes to technical scope to handle changing business priorities or urgency.
• Leads the refactoring of complex systems or problems when warranted, making pragmatic trade‑offs between perfection and technical debt that align with business priorities and how to repay debt.
• Has the skills to competently work on complex and unknown problems under pressure (e.g., debugging complex production issues quickly or leading the resolution of critical or major incidents).
• Demonstrates technical skills outside of code and leads the design process for complex problems in their team or collective.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years in an architectural or lead role.
• Strong hands‑on expertise in Python.
• Proven experience building distributed, microservices‑based systems from the ground up.
• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, asynchronous processing, message queues (Rabbit
  
  MQ, Kafka, etc.), and event‑driven architectures.
• Solid understanding of No
  
  SQL database design.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge and practical experience implementing automated testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms (Azure).
• Strong problem‑solving skills, balancing technical excellence and practical delivery.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills – able to explain complex concepts clearly.

• Architect and design end‑to‑end systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance across the trade finance platform.
• Define and enforce coding standards, testing practices, design patterns, and architectural best practices for the engineering team.
• Develop core services and components from scratch, ensuring clean modular architecture and strong API contracts.
• Implement and oversee comprehensive testing strategies, including:
  • Unit testing for all services and modules.
  • End‑to‑end testing across the platform to…