Software Engineer / Oleksi
5+ years of experiencePorto, Portugal
Fintech-focused Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building high-load trading platforms, exchange infrastructure, backend architecture, and AI-enabled systems. Strong background in low-latency distributed systems, market data processing, order execution, cloud infrastructure, observability, and full-stack delivery.
Skills
- Backend engineering for high-load fintech, trading, and exchange platforms
- Low-latency distributed systems, market data processing, and order execution infrastructure
- AI-enabled trading systems, chatbot infrastructure, and workflow automation
- Cloud-native infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, auto-scaling, observability)
- Event-driven and CQRS-based architectures for real-time financial systems
- CI/CD, testing infrastructure, production reliability, and scalability engineering
- Domain expertise: FinTech, institutional trading, exchange systems, and payment processing
Experience
Apr 2021 — Apr 2026
Software Engineer
Devexperts Portugal
- Built infrastructure components for an AI chatbot inside a trading platform, enabling AI-assisted interaction with trading workflows and platform data
- Designed backend integration layers connecting AI-driven workflows with existing trading services, APIs, and user-facing terminal functionality
- Worked on infrastructure for an AI-based trading bot, supporting bot workflow, its integration with market data, trading logic, and platform services
- Optimized cloud infrastructure costs by 30% using proper auto-scaling policies and implemented serverless functions with AWS Lambda and API Gateway
- Designed the matching system in matching engine for OCO orders from scratch and implemented test infrastructure including mocks, fixtures, DSL for end-to-end tests, and CI/CD integration
Oct 2025 - Apr 2026
Software Engineer
Trading Terminal (NDA)
- Key focus: AI chatbot infrastructure, AI-based trading bot infrastructure, backend integration, trading workflow automation.
- Built infrastructure components for an AI chatbot inside a trading platform, enabling AI-assisted interaction with trading workflows and platform data.
- Designed backend integration layers connecting AI-driven workflows with existing trading services, APIs, and user-facing terminal functionality.
- Worked on infrastructure for an AI-based trading bot, supporting bot workflow, its integration with market data, trading logic, and platform services.
- Connected AI features with production fintech systems while considering reliability, security boundaries, observability, and operational maintainability.
- Transform ed AI functionality from experimental/product concepts into production-ready platform components.
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
Software Engineer
OTC & Equity Trading Platform (Trive).
- Trading platform for broad usage, including processing of stock market deals and future currency position calculations.
- Optimized cloud infrastructure costs by 30% using proper auto-scaling policies.
- Implemented serverless functions with AWS Lambda and API Gateway, improving performance and reducing maintenance overhead.
- Organized monitoring and logging using AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail, improving infrastructure transparency and operational control.
- Worked with event-driven and CQRS-based backend architecture for financial transaction processing.
- Supported production-grade deployment and infrastructure improvements for trading-related services.
Sep 2023 - Jan 2026
Software Engineer
Institutional Trading Exchange (NDA)
- Institutional trading exchange for financial organizations from multiple countries, supporting real-time order and market data processing.
- Key focus: AI chatbot infrastructure, backend integration, trading workflow automation.
- Built infrastructure components for an AI chatbot inside a trading platform, enabling AI-assisted interaction with trading workflows and platform data.
- Designed backend integration layers connecting AI-driven workflows with existing trading services, APIs, and user-facing terminal functionality.
- Worked on infrastructure for an AI-based trading bot, supporting integration with market data, trading logic, and platform services.
- Connected AI features with production fintech systems while considering reliability, security boundaries, observability, and operational maintainability.
- Contributed across backend and frontend-facing flows to ensure AI functionality could be delivered smoothly to end users.
- Helped transform AI functionality from experimental/product concepts into production-ready platform components.
Nov 2020 — Apr 2021
Back End Developer
Sberbank
- Payment card back-office software
- Created integrations with 3 different payment processing vendors, handling all stages: analysis, development, testing, deployment
- Participated in the delivery team to customize, deploy and run data migration for payment card back-office software
Education
Sep 2018 — Jul 2022
Bachelor of Software Engineering
Don State Technical University
Contact
Takovska 5, Belgrade, 🇷🇸 Serbia.
Email: [email protected]