Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Trading Platform)
Railsware
Senior full-stack engineer building a trading terminal for prop firms and traders. You'll work on real-time market data (Level 2, order books), order flow visualizations, and trading interfaces. Must be an active trader yourself. Small founding team (you'd be second engineer) with high ownership and spec-driven, AI-orchestrated development.
Brak jawnych widełek — wynagrodzenie do ustalenia podczas rekrutacji.
Brakuje: on-call expectations, team size (only implied as very small).
Senior full-stack engineer building a trading terminal for prop firms and traders. You'll work on real-time market data (Level 2, order books), order flow visualizations, and trading interfaces. Must be an active trader yourself. Small founding team (you'd be second engineer) with high ownership and spec-driven, AI-orchestrated development.
- ✓High ownership – no ticket queue, full process from specs to shipping
- ✓Product connection – you'll use the product yourself as a trader
- ✓AI-first team – AI used as part of planning, research, and building
- ✓Outcome-driven working style with synchronous and asynchronous collaboration
- ✓Access to senior Railsware Director for mentorship
- !Small team (you'll be second engineer) with high ownership – may lack structure
- !AI-orchestrated development is vaguely defined
- !No mention of on-call expectations for real-time trading platform
- ?Brak jawnych widełek — wynagrodzenie do ustalenia podczas rekrutacji
- •Building real-time market data pipelines (Level 2 data, order book reconstruction)
- •Developing order flow visualizations (footprints, heatmaps, DOM, profiles, CVD)
- •Improving the trading interface (charts, DOM, tape, order panel)
- •Preparing live data features for partnerships with prop firms
- •Integrating with market data providers
- •Writing product specs and making UX decisions
- •Collaborating with AI agents for planning and development
- •Shipping features from specs to production
Oferta dla doświadczonych specjalistów (Senior).
A senior engineer with 5 years experience, strong in low-latency backend and React/TypeScript, active trader, able to produce specs and work with AI agents.
Not for juniors or mid-levels without deep trading knowledge. Not for engineers who don't trade actively or who prefer large structured teams.
- ?What does 'AI-orchestrated development' mean in practice? How are AI agents used?
- ?What is the on-call schedule or expectation for real-time systems?
- ?What are the expected working hours? Is there overlap with US time zones?
- ?How does the spec-driven process work? How are specs reviewed and approved?
- ?What is the roadmap for the next 6–12 months?
- ?How is performance measured in an outcome-driven environment?
- −On-call expectations
- −Team size (only implied as very small)
- −Specific tools for collaboration (e.g., Slack, Jira)
- −Process for creating and reviewing specs
Small founding team with high ownership, outcome-driven, AI-first, synchronous + asynchronous collaboration.