Sr. Platform Engineer, Tech Lead (Django, Go, React)

At My Funded Futures were transforming the world of proprietary trading by giving traders the capital tools and community they need to succeed.

We blend innovation transparency and performance to create opportunity helping traders scale faster and smarter. If youre passionate about fintech financial markets and data-driven growth youll fit right in.

Explore our open roles below and see how you can help us shape the future of funded trading.

Position Summary

Join MyFundedFutures as a senior hands-on engineer to design build and maintain our core backend systems platform infrastructure and frontend tools. Someone who takes strong informed positions on architecture and technology options while remaining pragmatic and adaptable to the realities of a fast-moving trading platform business.

You thrive in environments where financial accuracy system uptime and developer productivity are equally critical and you treat dependability as a non-negotiable professional standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead across platform and backend engineering owning architecture decisions facilitating cross-team coordination and ensuring consistent development standards.
• Design build and maintain core backend services and APIs using Django/Python and Go with a focus on reliability performance and scalability.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt performance bottlenecks security risks and reliability gaps before they become production incidents.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the team providing clear constructive technical guidance and helping others grow in ownership and scope.
• Contribute to frontend development in React particularly around platform integrations and internal tooling.
• Be a dependable presence on-call and in production you take ownership of issues through to resolution and document your learnings as repeatable processes.

Qualifications

Required

• Strong ability to write well-structured idiomatic Python and Go with a deep understanding of the Django ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience integrating payment systems (Stripe Worldpay Braintree or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical architecture discussions and produce clear defensible design decisions with appropriate trade-off analysis.
• Experience with RESTful API design WebSockets and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of databases (PostgreSQL MySQL Elasticsearch) including schema design query optimization indexing and transactional integrity.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines automated testing strategies and modern DevOps tooling.
• React (or similar) development experience comfortable contributing to or reviewing frontend work within a full-stack platform context.
• Reliable and dependable you follow through communicate proactively and treat your commitments seriously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment across engineering product and business stakeholders.

Preferred

• Background in trading futures prop trading or fintech environments you understand the domain the stakes and the performance expectations.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
• Familiarity with distributed systems patterns: message queues (Kafka RabbitMQ) caching strategies (Redis) and service-to-service communication.
• Experience operating in multi-team engineering organizations with shared codebases or platform dependencies.
• Exposure to observability tooling: Prometheus Grafana structured logging and distributed tracing.

EEO Statement

Equal Employment Opportunity
My Funded Futures is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diversity drives innovation and success. We are committed to building an inclusive environment where every team member feels valued respected and supportedregardless of race color religion gender gender identity sexual orientation national origin age disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic.

Pay Transparency

In compliance with pay transparency laws My Funded Futures provides compensation ranges in job postings where required. Final compensation may vary based on experience qualifications and location. We also offer comprehensive benefits and performance-based incentives.

Accessibility / Accommodation Statement

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Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the applicable country without employer sponsorship. The Company does not offer visa sponsorship or immigration assistance for this position.