Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimize operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimized consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Overview

At Rithum the Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team is responsible for the availability, reliability, and observability of all database systems. We rely heavily on automation to reduce manual work and are always looking for ways to improve our processes. We currently Manage and optimize a large-scale SQL Server environment spanning hundreds of instances across hybrid infrastructure (onprem VMware and AWS), as well as installations of various relational and NoSQL database platforms including MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Postgres, and Redis. These database systems touch all aspects of the business. On the DBRE team, we have a strong culture of curiosity, honesty, and a love of collaboration and constant learning.  

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you are expected to embody these values and help foster them among your fellow team members. You are responsible for managing a variety of database systems and designing and leading your own projects with a highly technical approach.

Responsibilities

• Ensure maximum availability and reliability of mission-critical database systems across hybrid infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and maintain SQL Server Always-on Availability Groups, clustering, and replication topologies. Constantly improve the observability of all database systems.
• Lead major database upgrade initiatives and modernization efforts. Support other engineers and teams in their use of database systems.
• Continuously enhance observability using telemetry, performance analysis, and proactive monitoring.
• Continuously enhance processes through automation. Automate operational workflows using PowerShell, Python, and CI/CD tooling.
• Ensure all data is protected and secure
• Participate in our on-call rotation
• Troubleshoot and tune high-load production systems, including complex performance and replication issues.
• Lead technical response during high-severity incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
• Ensure database security, backup integrity, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Contribute to the development of best practices for database engineering and reliability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design scalable, resilient data architectures.
• Mentor team members and contribute to engineering best practices.

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 3+ years of hands-on experience managing database systems
• Basic understanding of multi-tenant, database-driven applications
• Familiarity with common data storage technologies and use cases
• Proficiency in a common high-level language such as PowerShell or Python
• Design, implement, and support SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, clustering, and transactional replication
• Lead and execute major upgrade initiatives (e.g., SQL Server version upgrades, compatibilitylevel transitions)
• Own disaster recovery validation and failover strategy execution
• Investigate and resolve complex replication and distribution database failures

Preferred Qualifications 

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering production database systems at scale
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Experience with database high-availability technologies
• Experience with MongoDB (including replica sets and Atlas), DynamoDB, or other distributed NoSQL platforms
• Familiarity with cloud-native database architectures (AWS preferred)
• Exposure to data platform modernization initiatives (e.g., migration to newer engine versions, consolidation, cloud adoption)
• Knowledge of relational database design concepts in an OLTP environment
• Experience managing database systems in a cloud environment
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development

 Travel Required  

Up to 10%

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What it’s like to work at Rithum 

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

At Rithum you will:

• Partner with the leading brands and retailers.
• Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals.
• Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere.
• Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days.
• Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.

We believe in transparency and fairness in our compensation practices.

For this position, the expected base pay range is: $90,000-$140,000 per year. 

This range represents the base pay for the role across all U.S. locations and is determined based on market data, internal equity, and experience. Final compensation may vary depending on geographic location, skills, and relevant experience.In addition to base pay, we offer a discretionary bonus for non-sales roles, a comprehensive benefits package, and, where applicable, sales incentives.

For this position, the expected discretionary bonus is 10% of the annual base salary.

 Benefits 

• Medical, dental and vision benefits: Affordable health care plans and company HSA contributions, starting on Day 1
• A 6% 401(k) match
• Competitive time off package with 20 days of Paid Time Off, 9 Company-Paid holidays, 2 paid floating holidays, 7 paid sick days, 2 Wellness days, and 1 Paid Volunteer Day; at 3 years of service PTO increases to 22 days, and at 5 years it increases to 25 days
• 12 weeks primary caregiver leave & 4 weeks secondary caregiver leave
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Pet insurance
• Legal assistance and identity theft insurance plans
• Life insurance 2x salary
• Access to the Calm app and the Employee Assistance Program
• $65/month Remote work stipend for internet
• Culture and team-building activities
• Tuition assistance
• Career development opportunities
• Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year

Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law for qualified applicants. If you require assistance during the interview process due to a medical condition or need support accessing our website or completing the application process, please reach out to us by completing the Accommodations Request Form. Your comfort and accessibility are important to us, and we're here to ensure a seamless experience as you explore opportunities with our team.

Position Summary

We are looking for a skilled, hands-on senior engineer to build and maintain the core infrastructure and backend services that power our trading platform. You will work on systems where performance, correctness, and uptime are fundamental - not afterthoughts.You write clean, efficient C# and Go, take pride in the quality and reliability of your work, and are comfortable owning complex backend problems from design through production. You have a strong instinct for identifying risk before it becomes an incident, and you bring the kind of engineering discipline that high-stakes, real-time financial systems demand.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and platform infrastructure in C# and Go, with a focus on performance, reliability, and correctness.
• Own backend components end-to-end - from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and on-call support.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks before they become production incidents.
• Collaborate with the platform tech lead and other engineers on system design, code reviews, and cross-team integration work.
• Contribute to frontend development in React, particularly around platform integrations and internal tooling.
• Write and maintain comprehensive tests, documentation, and runbooks to support operational excellence.
• Participate actively in on-call rotation - owning issues through to resolution and contributing to post-incident reviews.

Qualifications

Required

• Strong C# development skills - solid understanding of the .NET ecosystem, async/await patterns, and performance optimization with modern C# idioms (.NET 6+).
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining backend or platform systems in production environments.
• Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems, particularly in financial, trading, or data-intensive domains.
• Strong understanding of databases including schema design, query optimization, and transactional integrity (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar).
• Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps tooling.
• Frontend awareness - comfortable working across the stack, reviewing or contributing to React-based frontend work.
• Reliable and dependable - you follow through, communicate proactively, and treat your commitments seriously.
• Strong communication skills; able to collaborate effectively across engineering and product.

Preferred

• Familiarity with functional programming paradigms - comfortable applying immutability, pure functions, and composition patterns to write more predictable, testable code.
• Proficiency in Go - comfortable writing production-grade services and APIs.
• Experience with React or modern frontend frameworks - able to contribute to platform tooling and interfaces.
• Familiarity with Python for scripting, tooling, or data processing.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
• Background in trading, futures, prop trading, or fintech - you understand the domain and its performance expectations.
• Familiarity with distributed systems patterns: message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching strategies (Redis), and service-to-service communication.
• Exposure to observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, and distributed tracing.
• Experience working in multi-team engineering organizations with shared platform dependencies.

Position Summary

We are looking for a seasoned, hands-on engineer to lead platform and backend engineering on our trading infrastructure. You will serve as the technical authority for a high-performance, low-latency trading platform - owning architecture decisions, setting engineering standards, and driving the work that keeps critical systems reliable and fast.You thrive in environments where microseconds matter, correctness is non-negotiable, and the team looks to you not just for technical direction but for the clarity and confidence to execute against it. You are pragmatic, opinionated, and comfortable operating at the intersection of systems engineering, financial technology, and cross-functional product delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for platform and backend engineering - owning architecture decisions, setting development standards, and coordinating across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, low-latency backend systems and trading infrastructure in C# and Go, with a relentless focus on throughput, reliability, and correctness.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices across the team, including code quality standards, testing strategies, and deployment processes.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks before they become production incidents.
• Mentor and develop engineers - providing constructive technical guidance, supporting career growth, and helping others expand their scope of ownership.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver cohesive platform features, and contribute directly to React-based tooling and interfaces when needed.
• Be a dependable presence on-call and in production - owning issues through to resolution and documenting learnings as repeatable processes.
• Drive cross-team alignment on platform capabilities, dependencies, and roadmap priorities.

Qualifications

Required

• Expert-level C# development skills - deep understanding of the .NET ecosystem, async/await patterns, performance optimization, and modern C# idioms (.NET 6+).
• Demonstrated experience leading technical architecture for backend or platform systems - producing clear, defensible design decisions with trade-off analysis.
• Hands-on experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems, particularly in financial, trading, or data-intensive environments.
• Strong proficiency with systems-level debugging, profiling, and performance tuning.
• Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of databases including schema design, query optimization, and transactional integrity (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar).
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps tooling.
• Frontend fluency - comfortable reviewing, contributing to, or coordinating with React-based frontend work.
• Reliable and dependable - you follow through, communicate proactively, and treat your commitments seriously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Preferred

• Familiarity with functional programming paradigms - comfortable applying immutability, pure functions, and composition patterns to write more predictable, testable code.
• Proficiency in Go - comfortable writing production-grade services, APIs, and platform tooling.
• Experience with React or modern frontend frameworks - able to contribute to or own frontend platform tooling when needed.
• Familiarity with Python for scripting, tooling, or data processing.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
• Background in trading, futures, prop trading, or fintech - you understand the domain, the stakes, and the performance expectations.
• Familiarity with distributed systems patterns: message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching strategies (Redis), and service-to-service communication.
• Exposure to observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, and distributed tracing.
• Experience operating in multi-team engineering organizations with shared codebases or platform dependencies.

Position Summary

Join MyFundedFutures as a senior, hands-on engineer to design, build, and maintain our core backend systems, platform infrastructure, and frontend tools.  Someone who takes strong, informed positions on architecture and technology options, while remaining pragmatic and adaptable to the realities of a fast-moving trading platform business.

You thrive in environments where financial accuracy, system uptime, and developer productivity are equally critical and you treat dependability as a non-negotiable professional standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead across platform and backend engineering — owning architecture decisions, facilitating cross-team coordination, and ensuring consistent development standards.
• Design, build, and maintain core backend services and APIs using Django/Python and Go, with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, security risks, and reliability gaps before they become production incidents.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the team — providing clear, constructive technical guidance and helping others grow in ownership and scope.
• Contribute to frontend development in React, particularly around platform integrations and internal tooling.
• Be a dependable presence on-call and in production — you take ownership of issues through to resolution and document your learnings as repeatable processes.

Qualifications

Required

• Strong ability to write well-structured, idiomatic, Python and Go with a deep understanding of the Django ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience integrating payment systems (Stripe, Worldpay, Braintree, or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical architecture discussions and produce clear, defensible design decisions with appropriate trade-off analysis.
• Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch) including schema design, query optimization, indexing and transactional integrity.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps tooling.
• React (or similar) development experience — comfortable contributing to or reviewing frontend work within a full-stack platform context.
• Reliable and dependable – you follow through, communicate proactively, and treat your commitments seriously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Preferred

• Background in trading, futures, prop trading, or fintech environments — you understand the domain, the stakes, and the performance expectations.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
• Familiarity with distributed systems patterns: message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching strategies (Redis), and service-to-service communication.
• Experience operating in multi-team engineering organizations with shared codebases or platform dependencies.
• Exposure to observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, and distributed tracing.