Junior Backend Engineer - Trading Platform (India, Chennai)

About GoCharting

GoCharting is a web-native charting and trading platform. Traders use professional orderflow tools — footprint charts, volume and market profile, cumulative delta, DOM trading — to read the market and place orders through their broker, all in the browser. Our users are active traders in India, the US and around the world.

The Role

You will build and fix backend services in Go, taking well-scoped tickets from design to production with the senior backend engineers beside you. The role is full-time and in person in our Chennai office, and reports to the Director of Backend Engineering. It is a junior role: you are trained, every change is reviewed by a senior engineer, and you take on more each month. This is an immediate need. At 3 to 6 months, you should be shipping scoped backend changes to production on your own, reviewed but not hand-held, and handling small production fixes.

What you'll do

• Ship scoped backend tickets — implement APIs and service changes in Go, from ticket to production
• Write tests and clear pull requests — say what changed, why, and how you tested it
• Fix production defects — trace bugs through services and data with a senior engineer, and fix the cause
• Work with the database — write and review PostgreSQL queries and schema changes with a senior engineer
• Learn how the platform fits together — services, data feeds, billing and customer events, through reviews and pairing
• Follow the release process — take your changes through code review, QA and release the way the team does

What we're looking for

Must-haves:

• 1+ years building backend services, in a job, an internship or a project you can show
• Working knowledge of Go, from work or a project you can show
• Can write SQL against a relational database such as PostgreSQL
• Has used Git and pull-request code review
• In person in our Chennai office, 5 days a week

Nice-to-haves:

• PostgreSQL schema design (adds the ability to handle data changes sooner)
• REST APIs and webhooks, for example payment gateway integrations (adds speed on billing work)
• Automated tests in Go (adds confidence in every release)
• Docker and CI pipelines (adds ease with our build and release setup)
• Interest in trading, brokerage or fintech products (adds speed in learning our domain)

Logistics

Location Chennai, India - in person, office-based

Employment type Full-time

Entity ProCharting Private Limited

Reports to Director of Backend Engineering

Start date ASAP

Travel None