Backend Software Engineer

• R&D
• Haifa (Hybrid)

Plus500 is a world-leading online trading platform with hundreds of thousands of active users placing millions of trades a month.

Our mission is to disrupt the age-old trade markets by building digital technologies that make trading around the world accessible and more efficient.

What to Expect - The Role

We are looking for a highly motivated backend software engineer specializing in creating high-scale, distributed backend systems.

You must demonstrate strong software engineering skills, excellent interpersonal communication, extreme ownership, and the ability to accept and give meaningful technical feedback.

You will be responsible for designing architecture, writing correct, robust code, maintaining and improving existing functionality, and shipping new features.

You will work as part of a Scrum-Agile cross-functional team and collaborate with front-end engineers, quality engineers, product managers, and more.

The platform you help us build will scale novel functionality to millions of Plus users worldwide.

Our team strives to set the bar for real-time, high-scale, mission-critical trading systems. We want to work with people who are excited by this goal and have the talent to deliver on it.

What You’ll Do - Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, high-availability mission-critical systems and APIs
• Drive the migration of large-scale, distributed trading services towards cloud-native microservices
• Solve problems using distributed, asynchronous messaging
• Tackle technical challenges - performance, fault-tolerance, security, and live production issues
• Work closely with product, DevOps\SRE, and infrastructure teams - we practice full-cycle development where developers own and operate what they build.
• Mentor Jr engineers as a Senior member of the team

What You’ll Bring - Requirements

• 5+ years of building SaaS applications, preferably in a service-oriented architecture
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Expertise in modern web development frameworks, C#, Java, or equivalent.
• Experience in writing optimized SQL and working against various different datastores.
• Demonstrated success with scalable web applications or messaging systems
• Experience with web security is a plus.

Compensation and Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Plus employee, you are eligible for the following benefits:

• Yearly Bonus and RSU grants based on performance
• Online\On-Site Courses, attend public conferences, and many other growth and learning opportunities.
• Health Insurance
• Gym, Pilates, Yoga, and others
• Cibus\10Bis
• Tickets to our sponsored team's games
• Social events

Where you'll be

• We offer a hybrid work policy : 3 on-site plus 2 flexible days.
• Work is located at the Matam, Haifa R&D Center.

Plus500 is a publicly listed company, we welcome you to read and learn about our business strategy, strengths, and results on our investor relations page.