C# Backend Engineer – Execution Systems

About This Role

Company Description:

Azora Technologies FZCO is a Dubai-based financial technology company that builds and operates institutional-grade quantitative research, trading, and risk infrastructure. Our systems power automated trading across US, European, Asian, and Indian markets, futures and options, 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, for institutional clients and affiliated proprietary trading entities.

We build the execution systems, data pipelines, and risk infrastructure that enable quantitative strategies to operate reliably at scale.

Role Description:

We are hiring one Execution Systems Engineer to take ownership of live trading infrastructure.

This is not a generic backend role. You will own specific execution systems, client integrations, trading APIs, market data connections and be accountable when they misbehave in production.

What ownership means here:

• You are primary owner of specific client–market execution surfaces
• You are available during the trading session your systems operate in
• You debug and fix production issues in real time, not next sprint

What You Will Do:

Production execution ownership

• Maintain and extend C# execution systems that connect to trading and market data APIs (WebSocket, REST, FIX, proprietary clients)
• Integrate new client endpoints across different exchanges and markets
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve live trading issues during market hours

Systems reliability

• Build resilient, idempotent, failure-safe processing pipelines
• Design for restarts, partial failures, and network interruptions
• Implement proper logging, alerting, and observability for execution paths

Research infrastructure support

• Contribute to Java-based backtesting and data pipeline systems
• Support end-of-day processing, reconciliation, and back-office workflows

What We Are Looking For:

Must have

:

• 4 to 6 years of backend engineering experience in production systems
• Strong proficiency in C# or Java (you will work in both, C# primarily)
• Experience with live production systems where failures have real consequences, such as payments, trading, banking, or similar domains
• Deep understanding of concurrency, threading, and failure handling
• Experience being on-call and personally resolving production incidents end-to-end
• Comfort with ambiguity: small team, high ownership, no hand-holding

Strong preference for:

• Experience in financial services, trading platforms, payment systems, banking infrastructure, brokerage systems
• Familiarity with trading concepts: order flow, market data, position management, reconciliation
• Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ) and event-driven architectures
• Proficiency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot): We actively use AI coding tools (Claude Code/Cursor) to accelerate development, while maintaining strong engineering rigor.

Not a fit if:

• Your experience is primarily CRUD APIs, product features, or enterprise middleware
• You have not personally owned and debugged production systems under time pressure
• You need structured processes, detailed specifications, and defined sprints to be productive
• You are looking for a pure architecture or leadership role without hands-on execution

Tech Stack:

• Execution systems

: C# / .NET

• Research & data infrastructure

: Java

• AI tooling

: Claude Code, Cursor

• Databases

: MariaDB/MySQL, multi-server sync

Team:

You will join a small, focused execution team. You report to the CTO and work closely with the CEO, quants, researchers, and operations team.

Compensation:

• Salary

: AED 18,000 – 22,000 per month (based on experience and depth)

• Bonus

: Discretionary, performance-linked

• Benefits

: Medical insurance, visa sponsorship, spouse visa support

• Review

: Structured 6-month review tied to execution ownership outcomes

Location:

Dubai, UAE. On-site. This is not a remote role.

Full relocation support provided for candidates moving to Dubai.