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

MyFundedFutures is seeking a senior, hands-on engineer to design, build, and maintain their core backend systems and platform infrastructure. The role involves serving as a technical lead, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high standards in development while contributing to both backend and frontend development.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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