Senior Software Engineer

About the role

At Midas, we are solving real-world engineering problems to transform how millions of people interact with money.

We're transforming investing in Turkey — creating a seamless experience for everyday investors on one end, and building powerful tools for advanced traders on the other.

Today, over 4 million users trust Midas with their investments. Backed by an $80M Series B — the largest fintech investment in Turkey — we are scaling faster than ever.

More importantly, we are building mission-critical financial systems where reliability, performance, and correctness are non-negotiable.

What You’ll Do - Design and develop high-volume, low-latency systems running 24/7 with zero downtime, impacting real users and real money

- Own the full lifecycle-from design to production-while ensuring clear and effective communication across teams

- Take ownership of large, complex systems, ensuring resiliency and reliability from prevention to rapid recovery

- Collaborate closely with product and business teams as a product-minded engineer

- Actively contribute to a culture of clear, frequent, and effective communication across teams

- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code with a strong focus on production quality

- Make and contribute to pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing real-world trade-offs

- Continuously improve systems with a focus on observability, maintainability, and operational excellence

- Support and mentor other engineers through technical guidance, feedback, and knowledge sharing

- Leverage modern tools, including AI-assisted development, to improve productivity while maintaining high quality standards

What You’ll Bring - Strong software development experience with a solid engineering foundation

- Experience designing and building scalable and reliable systems

- Good understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and data consistency challenges

- Experience working with transactional systems and critical data flows

- Familiarity with event-driven and asynchronous architectures

- Understanding of monitoring, alerting, and production systems

- Ability to think in trade-offs, not just ideal solutions

- Comfort operating in high-ambiguity environments and turning unclear problems into concrete solutions

- A mindset of ownership, accountability, and delivering outcomes

- Strong communication skills, able to articulate decisions, align stakeholders, and drive clarity

- Willingness to mentor and elevate the team, not just contribute individually

- Ability to effectively use AI tools as a productivity multiplier, while maintaining engineering rigor

Why Join Us?

Play to Win, Build with the Best

We operate with a strong bias for winning — setting ambitious goals and delivering against them.