Software Engineer

About the role

At Midas , we tackle real-world engineering challenges to reshape the future of finance. Our mission is to build the fastest and most reliable products, delivering a seamless experience that empowers everyone to manage their money effortlessly. More than 4 million users use our product. Backed by an $80M Series B , the largest fintech investment ever in Turkey, we are scaling faster than ever. Read Before You Apply 🚨 This role is not for everyone. We are looking for outlier engineers who: Have owned products end-to-end , from idea to production monitoring. Have managed live incidents , written post-mortems, and implemented long-term fixes. Passionate about delivering exceptional product experiences and maximizing user impact , beyond just writing code. Years of experience don’t matter — what matters is the depth of ownership, incident handling, and product impact you’ve delivered. If this doesn’t sound like you, no worries — Midas has other opportunities that may be a better fit. What You’ll Do Design and build scalable, low-latency systems powering real-time trading and financial data. Take full ownership: from ideation, architecture, development, release & monitoring in production . Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and infrastructure teams to deliver impactful features. What We’re Looking For Strong fundamentals in computer science and system design . Hands-on backend development experience. Deep knowledge of relational databases, caching systems , and distributed systems. Proficient in containerized environments and modern cloud infrastructure, ensuring resilient and efficient deployments Familiarity with event-driven architectures, microservices, reactive programming models . Proven incident response experience in large-scale production environments is a strong plus. Prior exposure to financial or mission-critical systems is a strong plus. How We Work Full ownership — you don’t wait, you solve. First principles mindset — you question assumptions and rebuild where needed. Balance speed & quality — you ship fast, but always clean. Product mindset — you care about the user impact, not just the code. Calm under pressure — incidents happen; you lead with clarity and composure. We don’t measure success by how many features you ship — but by the impact your work has on millions of users . If you thrive in high-stakes environments, love solving real problems, and own your work end-to-end, we want to meet you. Originally posted on Himalayas