Senior Back-End Developer; Trading
Listed on 2025-12-19
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Software Development
Backend Developer, Senior Developer
Location: Town of Italy
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About The Company
Hercle is a fast-growing, VC-backed fintech. Our mission is to accelerate the mainstream adoption of digital assets by delivering deep liquidity and efficient settlement, globally.
About The Company
Hercle is a fast-growing, VC-backed fintech. Our mission is to accelerate the mainstream adoption of digital assets by delivering deep liquidity and efficient settlement, globally.
We provide secure and seamless access to digital assets for financial institutions, fintechs, brokers, PSPs, and crypto-native platforms.
Working at Hercle
We’re a lean, ambitious team where everyone gets real responsibility from day one, with the freedom to move fast and the support to grow.
We work in a flat, collaborative environment where ideas matter more than titles. People here are self-starters who take initiative and help each other succeed.
If you're curious, driven, and excited to build the future of finance, we’d love to meet you.
About
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Back-End Developer to join our Trading Engineering team. You will be responsible for designing and optimising high-performance, low-latency back-end systems that power Hercle’s trading infrastructure. Your work will directly support mission-critical services that run entirely in-memory, requiring expertise in concurrency, memory management, and system optimization.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in high-frequency trading environments and has strong experience in building scalable, distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-performance back-end services in C#/.NET
- Build APIs, services, and real-time pipelines for trading environments
- Optimize system performance in low-latency, high-throughput systems
- Manage concurrency and memory in in-memory data systems (no DB reliance)
- Collaborate closely with trading, infrastructure, and product teams
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Participate in code reviews and provide mentorship to junior developers
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and contribute to infrastructure automation
- 5+ years of professional experience in C#/.NET development
- Strong background in concurrent programming (multithreading, synchronization, distributed systems)
- Proven experience with low-level memory management
- Academic or professional experience in C or C++ (minimum 2 years)
- Solid understanding of performance optimization in trading or real-time systems
- Strong grasp of software design patterns and system architecture
- Familiarity with databases (SQL/No
SQL) though most of our systems are in-memory - Experience with version control (Git), CI/CD, and testing frameworks
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to take ownership of complex systems
- Competitive salary.
- Career and personal growth opportunities.
- Flexible working arrangements (remote/hybrid).
- Collaborative and forward-thinking work environment.
By submitting this application, I confirm that all the information given by me in this application for employment and any additional documents attached hereto are true to the best of my knowledge and that I have not wilfully suppressed any material fact. I confirm I have disclosed if applicable any previous employment with Hercle. I accept that if any of the information given by me in this application is in any way false or incorrect, my application may be rejected, any offer of employment may be withdrawn or my employment with Hercle may be terminated summarily or I may be dismissed.
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- Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
- Employment type
Full-time
- Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
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