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NodeJS Engineer / FinTech Startup

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLCChicago, IL🇺🇸United StatesPosted 5 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Node.JS Engineer to join a venture-backed fintech company building a next-generation platform for automated technical analysis and trading workflows. Our software brings institutional-grade analytics, pattern recognition, signal generation, backtesting, and automated execution, to professional traders, quantitative analysts, and investment teams.

I this role, you'll help evolve the backend systems that power a high-performance trading and analytics platform. You'll work on the infrastructure behind algorithmic trading tools, data ingestion pipelines, large-scale testing engines, and a custom scripting environment used by thousands of active market participants.

Required Skills & Experience
  • 2+ years of professional Node.JS development experience
  • Solid understanding of
    • Event loop & async architecture
    • Performance bottlenecks in Node.js
  • Experience working with large datasets or high-throughput systems
  • PostgreSQL knowledge:
    • Query optimization
    • Indexing strategies
    • Handling large writes
  • Experience debugging production issues
Desired Skills & Experience
  • Experience with
    • Performance profiling (CPU/memory)
    • Load testing techniques
    • Distributed systems or microservices
  • Understanding of:
    • Serialization formats (JSON, protobuf)
    • Data pipeline design
  • Familiarity with:
    • Terraform
    • Monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch)
    • Blue-green or zero-downtime deployments

The Offer
  • Equity eligible
You will receive the following benefits:
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Vacation Time
  • Stock Options
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

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Skills

Microservices
Node.js
Data Pipeline
Datadog
PostgreSQL
Terraform

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