Backend Team Lead

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Databricks

P-1127 At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. The Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse. Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks flowing through our platform.  We drive performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors and actively contribute to open source efforts to unify Delta and Iceberg formats. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliable, and performant systems, proactively addressing the future growth challenges. Additionally, as a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, contributing to the overall improvement of team coding practices and system designs. The Impact you will have: * Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering. * Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters. * Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. * Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services. * Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues. * Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company. * Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning. What we look for: * 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems. * Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables. * Motivated by delivering customer value and impact. * Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases. * Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction. * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.   About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Staff Engineer, Trading Automation and Backend Platforms

Flow Traders

Flow Traders is looking for a Staff Engineer to join us in our Amsterdam office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.  We are looking for a senior individual contributor to lead the architectural and technical direction for our Trading Automation and Backend Engineering teams. Operating across the full trade lifecycle (pre-trade, execution, and post-trade), you will bridge the gap between engineering, trading, and operations. As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle ambiguous, large-scale problems, set global engineering standards, and scale your impact by mentoring tech leads and engineers across multiple teams.  WHAT YOU WILL DO: STRATEGIC ARCHITECTURE & VISION  * Define and own the long-term technical architecture for our trading automation, risk, and post-trade platforms.   * Translate complex, ambiguous business problems into clear, executable technical roadmaps.    * Architect scalable, event-driven systems optimized for high throughput, data integrity, and reliability. Engineering Leadership & Mentorship * Elevate engineering standards across the organization, focusing on system design, observability, reliability, and scalability. * Act as an IC multiplier: mentor senior engineers, guide tech leads, and drive technical alignment across fragmented systems. * Lead efforts to responsibly decommission legacy systems in favor of modern, scalable services. Business & Operational Impact * Partner closely with trading, quant, risk, and operations teams to align technical choices with business value. * Drive automation in post-trade and middle-office workflows (allocations, settlements, reconciliations) to drastically reduce operational risk.   WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED * 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or cross-team Lead level. * Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and drive consensus across multiple teams.  * Deep expertise in building distributed, high-performance, and highly reliable backend systems. * Strong proficiency in at least one (or more) core backend language (Python, Go, C++, or Java).Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Databricks, Dataproc) and data pipelines. * Solid understanding of modern infrastructure, observability, and cloud platforms.   Nice to have * Deep knowledge of specific financial workflows (ETF creation/redemption, clearing, custody). * Experience with financial reference data, symbology, or instrument modeling. * Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR) and their data lineage requirements. * Solid background in financial services, trading, or market making. * Strong working knowledge of the trading lifecycle (order flow, execution, and post-trade/settlement flows).   WHAT WE OFFER At Flow Traders, we create the conditions for hard‑working, high‑performing people to do their best work. From a thorough onboarding and ongoing access to Flow Academy, to latest technology and a collaborative, non‑hierarchical culture, we give you the tools, ownership, and support to move fast and drive outcomes. We keep a close‑knit, small‑company feel while offering competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share, and comprehensive benefits, so talent can grow here, and stay here. See our benefits below: * Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences * Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar * In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles * Company boat * In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer * Bi-weekly massages * Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event * Global rotations across our offices worldwide * and more     Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders

Engineering Manager, Optimize Interfaces

Adyen

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.  For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Optimize Interfaces We’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-driven Engineering Manager to lead the Optimize Interfaces team. You will lead the team that develops and owns the engineering foundation behind Adyen Payments Optimization: the backbone that delivers Routing and Signaling as a Service across the global payment processing. As an Engineering Manager, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse and talented team of backend, machine learning and data engineers. You should be comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration. As a critical role in the continued success of our organization, you will help to iterate our culture and build an amazing team environment that will create future leaders for Adyen. What you'll do * Lead the cross-functional Optimization Interfaces team with hands-on technical leadership, driving architecture strategy and raising the bar through active mentoring and technical guidance. * Work cross-functionally with Design, Product, Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Developers and other key stakeholders. * Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and providing coaching in areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions. * Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact. * Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new services with reliability/infra/data/dev in mind. * Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager. * Create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture. * Recruit new team members who align with the Adyen culture and required skills.  Who you are * You have an affinity for the Payments optimization domain. * An energetic self-starter experienced in creating alignment between multiple teams. * You have experience with Core Java, Distributed systems, machine learning products and BI tools (e.g., Looker). * You are able to define, implement and monitor performance to quickly identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems. * You have experience in coaching and mentoring engineering talent. * You have experience in leading technical projects in a fast paced and critical environment. * You have experience collaborating with senior leadership to set strategic direction including product roadmaps. * You are an excellent communicator and team player who can inspire others around them. * You can clearly communicate technical concepts to non-engineers. Minimum Qualifications * 5+ years experience in managing engineering teams within a Java environment * 5+ years of experience in software development industry in a fast paced tech environment * Familiarity with working with Machine Learning and Data Engineering teams is a strong advantage * Prior experience in leading or mentoring data professionals is a plus Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.   This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.