Lead Backend Engineer - Feed Squad

The role

The Lead Backend Engineer will set the technical direction and lead the team building and operating feed services for market data. You will own the SLOs, infrastructure, and data models to ensure high reliability and low latency at scale.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction for feed services serving market data across Egypt, UAE, US, and KSA.
• Lead the team building and operating feed services.
• Own the SLOs and overall health of the feed as a system.
• Set the direction on how to use databases and data models including Redis, ClickHouse, and Postgres.
• Own the infrastructure the feed runs on.
• Identify technical debt and reliability risks and set priorities to improve them.
• Raise the bar on quality and operational discipline through code and design reviews, pairing, and mentoring.

Required qualifications

• A strong track record of leading the design, delivery, and operation of reliable backend systems in production used by large numbers of people.
• Real depth in distributed systems.
• Experience owning systems end to end, from design through production and on-call.
• A feel for performance and instinct to treat latency and throughput as first-class concerns.
• Familiarity with Python, C#, .NET Core, Golang, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and ClickHouse.
• A high bar for correctness and operational discipline.
• A clear, candid communicator who can set technical direction and mentor other engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, formally or informally, and setting technical direction for a team.
• Experience building systems optimized for real-time performance, where latency and throughput are on the line.
• Experience with ClickHouse or similar OLAP databases, and the query and schema patterns that get the most out of them.
• Experience in fintech, brokerage, trading, or another regulated, high-stakes domain where correctness and timing matter.

About the company

Thndr is an investing app aiming to make investing simple and accessible across the Middle East and North Africa. It is Egypt's number one investing app and is backed by investors including Tiger Global, Prosus Ventures, BECO Capital, and Y Combinator.