Senior Backend Engineer - Low Latency

The role

You will design and implement cutting-edge low latency services. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to craft performant, high throughput services and participate in operational rotations.

What you will do

• Collaborate with Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer and the team to craft highly performant, low latency and high throughput services
• Build solutions to guarantee peak performance across systems with focus on measurements and benchmarking
• Participate in pivotal decisions on technology stacks and architecture
• Participate in operational rotations to resolve incidents in our production environment

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience
• Firm understanding of low level JVM & OS concepts
• Strong grasp on the language, preferably Kotlin
• Solid understanding of programming design patterns and principles

Nice to have

• Seeking a tech-startup/scale-up environment
• Knowledge about network protocol - TCP, UDP
• Familiarity with libraries such as aeron and/or chronicle queue
• Experience with event-driven microservices using Kafka
• Experience with the Kubernetes ecosystem and cloud platforms — we work on AWS

About the company

Bitvavo launched its digital assets trading platform in 2018 to bridge the gap between traditional currencies and digital assets. It is the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe.