Senior Backend Engineer - Feed Squad

The role

You will design, build, and operate feed services that serve market data across Egypt, UAE, US, and KSA. You will manage high-volume data processing with low latency and high reliability while owning the underlying infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate feed services for market data across multiple markets.
• Process large volumes of data and events with low latency and high reliability.
• Maintain feed availability and correctness by owning SLOs and service health.
• Manage observability, on-call, and graceful failover during provider or infrastructure outages.
• Utilize databases including Redis, ClickHouse, and Postgres.
• Own the infrastructure the feed runs on and build in redundancy.
• Identify technical debt and reliability risks to improve owned systems.
• Support engineers through code and design reviews and pairing.

Required qualifications

• Track record of designing, shipping, and operating reliable backend systems in production used by large numbers of people.
• Depth in distributed systems and understanding how to keep them fast and correct under load and failure.
• Comfort owning systems end to end from design through production and on-call.
• Ability to treat latency and throughput as first-class concerns.
• Familiarity with Python, C#, .NET Core, Golang, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and ClickHouse.
• High bar for correctness and operational discipline.
• Clear, candid communicator.

Nice to have

• Experience building systems optimized for real-time performance.
• Experience with ClickHouse or similar OLAP databases.
• Experience in fintech, brokerage, trading, or another regulated, high-stakes domain.

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.