Senior Software Engineer New Markets

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer New Markets based in Canada. This is a senior engineering opportunity focused on building and evolving the systems that power a global digital brokerage platform. You will design, implement, and maintain highly scalable services supporting millions of users and complex financial transactions across multiple markets. The role combines hands-on software development with technical leadership, incident management, regional engineering initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration. You will help extend core systems to support new languages, currencies, markets, and regulatory requirements as the business expands internationally. Working within a globally distributed engineering organization, you’ll collaborate across regions while maintaining a high standard of reliability and performance. The position offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to influence both technical architecture and engineering culture. Accountabilities - Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems and services. - Build and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, React-based internal interfaces, administrative tools, developer-facing APIs, and third-party integrations. - Collaborate with core engineering teams to evolve shared frameworks and systems supporting multiple languages, currencies, markets, and regional requirements. - Work closely with engineering leads across different regions through synchronous and asynchronous collaboration to align technical priorities and delivery. - Troubleshoot production incidents, reported bugs, and system issues to maintain reliability, performance, and system integrity. - Serve as a regional engineering and operational reliability lead during business hours, including acting as incident commander when required. - Contribute to proactive 24x7 system stability by identifying operational risks and coordinating timely responses to incidents.

- Support regional recruitment initiatives and help identify and develop engineering talent. - Mentor engineers on software engineering principles, architecture, development practices, and technical standards. - Help foster strong engineering practices and culture across the region and wider organization. - Translate technical challenges and opportunities into practical solutions aligned with business and market expansion objectives. - Navigate regulatory and operational requirements when developing solutions for international financial markets. - Contribute to cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, product, operations, compliance, vendors, and other stakeholders. - Participate in on-call responsibilities when needed to support critical engineering initiatives and production systems. Requirements - Strong professional experience in software engineering, with demonstrated experience designing and building scalable, production-grade applications. - Strong proficiency in Go or a comparable backend programming language, with expertise in designing robust and efficient system architectures. - Strong computer science fundamentals and proven experience with software architecture and system design. - Experience with event-driven system design and distributed architectures. - Strong problem-solving skills combined with a proactive, ownership-oriented approach. - Experience troubleshooting production incidents and the ability to act decisively as an incident commander when required. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed engineering teams, vendors, regulators, and internal stakeholders.