Exness

Backend Software Engineer, Golang (Risk Control)

Exness  •  Republic of Cyprus (Onsite)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description

Why this role matters


As a Backend Software Engineer, Golang in the Risk Control team, you will build highly available Go services behind payment flows and risk-control systems. Solve complex problems across fraud prevention, regional availability, verification-based restrictiona, and marketing mechanics. The role requires diving deep into the domain and designing robust, unconventional solutions.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on projects such as:

  • flexible customer segmentation platform;
  • no-code real-time rule engine for managing business rules;
  • integration with numerous services in the company;
  • evolving the team’s infrastructure and services to handle anticipated growth and increasing system load;

The role is based in our office in Limassol, Cyprus. In case of relocation, we offer full relocation support for you and your family to make your move smooth and worry-free.

What you'll actually do

  • Consistently deliver core product features that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Write clean, secure, efficient code, perform thorough testing and debugging, and ensure seamless integration with other components while optimizing for scalability and addressing technical debt.
  • Write well-documented code and automation tests with strong coverage. Improve testing practices across the team.
  • Conduct code reviews, offer constructive feedback, and maintain documentation that meets company standards. Constantly work to improve code quality.
  • Tackle complex architectural and performance problems.
  • Drive improvements to service latency, fault tolerance, and resilience in high-load environments.
  • Drive architecture discussions and influence technical decisions not only within the team but also across the department
  • Prepare clear technical documentation and contribute to internal knowledge bases.
  • Promote and apply clean code principles and best engineering practices.
  • Automate repetitive tasks and contribute to performance optimizations.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and advocate for beneficial adoption.
  • Participate in technical interviews, share knowledge with peers, and contribute to improving team processes and standards.
  • Suggest and drive technical improvements.
  • Support onboarding and ongoing growth of team members.

Who we’re looking for

  • 5+ years of backend software development (3+ years of experience with Go)
  • Experience with any Kafka Message Broker
  • Experience with PostgreSQL
  • Solid experience with ORM and DBMS, including database architecture.
  • Skilled in Docker and Kubernetes is a huge plus
  • Experience acting as a code reviewer.
  • Experience with high-load, concurrency, and multithreading backend systems.
  • Microservice development experience.
  • Strong skills in building reliable and scalable services (design, APIs, storage, testing, CI/CD).
  • Solid knowledge of modern development practices (version control, reviews, branching, releases).
  • Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, system design, and integration patterns.
  • Experience in software testing: unit, integration, and load tests.
  • Experience in debugging, profiling, and code optimizations.
  • English level B2+.

What we offer along the way

  • Competitive salary and annual performance bonus
  • Full relocation support for you and your family — flights, housing, visas, and legal assistance included
  • Top-tier health insurance with full family coverage — medical, dental, vision, mental health — plus life insurance for peace of mind
  • Unlimited learning opportunities: external courses, English lessons, career and leadership development
  • Education allowance covering school and kindergarten fees
  • 21 working days of annual leave, plus public holidays and fully paid sick, maternity, and paternity leave
  • Employee appreciation program: branded gifts, birthday day-offs, celebration budgets for weddings, newborns, and milestones
  • “Get to know Team” trips — meet colleagues across our global hubs, along with company-wide offsites that raise the bar
  • Employee share scheme — grow with us
  • Branded MINI Cooper Countryman company car and private parking
  • Free in-house sports clubs, Sanctum Club gym access, and jet skis
  • Access to a Corporate doctor
  • Exclusive discount program with cafes, gyms, and local services
  • Expat tax perks: up to 50% income tax exemption
  • Support with the naturalisation process for relocated employees

What your journey looks like

  1. Intro call with Recruiter (up to 45 minutes)
  2. Technical interview (120 minutes)
  3. Behavioural interview (60 minutes)

Please use your exness work email for internal applications and ensure to disclose any existing Conflict of Interest you may have.

Exness

About Exness

Exness is a global fintech company and one of the world’s leading multi-asset brokers, with 40M daily order executions and 1M+ active clients. We design, build, and run the trading infrastructure that powers the markets, combining deep financial expertise with proprietary tech to deliver speed, stability, and transparency at scale.

We’re more than a trading company. We're a product company, a data company, and a culture-first company—driven by impact and built by people who care. Our platform is engineered in-house by 700+ experts using a modern stack and is trusted by traders worldwide for its reliable execution, deep liquidity, and low and stable spreads.

Founded in 2008, Exness has grown into a truly global organization with 2,000+ professionals across 13 countries. Our largest hub is in Cyprus—home to our engineering, product, and operations teams—while our commercial and customer service teams thrive across Malaysia, Uruguay, and several other global locations.

We believe great performance starts with great care. That’s why we offer more than generous benefits—from relocation support, private healthcare, and school coverage to learning budgets, share schemes, and full ownership of your work. At Exness, people come before process, and long-term thinking wins over short-term pressure.

In 2024, Exness was recognized as one of the Best Places to Work globally and received Great Place to Work® certification in 2022-2023 in Cyprus, reflecting our culture of trust, growth, and real care.

Whether you're an engineer, quant, product lead, customer specialist, or marketing strategist—if you're serious about impact, we're serious about you.

Explore сareers at Exness → https://exness-careers.com

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Limassol, CY
Year Founded
2008
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