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title: 'Staff Engineer (Solution Architecture) at Ftmo'
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# Staff Engineer (Solution Architecture) at Ftmo

- **Company:** Ftmo
- **Location:** Prague, Czech Republic
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ftmo/893084e5-7ab0-4a6c-b582-ef6f3c2c4884

## Job description

Our 100+ engineers build the FTMO platform for 3.5M+ users in 140+ countries. Our Solution Architecture team makes sure that many teams and systems fit together. It works as an enabling team: product teams own their systems and we help them move faster. We are growing the team and you will help shape how it works. As a Staff Engineer, you lead the architecture of complex initiatives across domains and connect Business, Operations and IT. You own two areas: the architecture of 2-3 product areas and at least one technical standard that every team uses.

What will you do?

- Be the architecture partner for 2-3 product areas: lead their cross-domain initiatives end to end and decide where the logic and data live.
- Set boundaries between IT teams and product areas, so that every piece of logic and data has one clear owner.
- Own a shared technical standard, such as event design on Kafka, API conventions or the service template, that teams adopt because it helps them.
- Decide architecture questions that cross team boundaries. Teams propose, you decide and explain why.
- Align API and event contracts between teams: what is exchanged, who owns it and how it evolves.
- Help split a shared legacy database into service-owned data with clear ownership.
- Turn business needs into technical options with clear trade-offs and judge features on return, complexity and running cost.
- Pair with teams on complex integrations and prove approaches with spikes and reference implementations, so teams can handle the next one on their own.
- Grow architecture skills across teams through guilds, workshops and documentation.
- Work with the Cloud Platform and Security teams on service-to-service security, secrets and data handling.

What do you bring to the table?

- 7+ years in software engineering, with recent years hands-on in distributed and event-driven systems.
- Experience as the go-to technical person well beyond your own team.
- Microservices, domain-driven design and database decoupling in practice.
- Practical Kafka knowledge: partitioning, delivery guarantees, schema registry, failure modes.
- You care about the business and can explain a technical trade-off to a Product Manager.
- You have grown other engineers beyond your own team through mentoring, pairing or guilds.
- AI is part of your daily work. You use it with a critical eye and support its adoption across the company.
- You are pragmatic: you start from the problem, not the pattern, and you measure your success by what teams can do without you.
- Security-minded: OAuth2 and JWT flows, secret management, data classification.
- English at C1 or higher.
- Nice to have: background in fintech, trading or a regulated industry, and experience with our stack: PHP, Go, Java/Kotlin, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes and Google Cloud.

Why join the FTMO team?

- We are a Czech fintech that, since 2015, has grown from an idea into a global project. 🚀
- 300+ amazing teammates. We’re a great team who learn from each other every day.🤜🤛
- How do we work? We focus on meaningful work and open communication, while only adopting processes that make our lives easier.
- Prague, Národní třída. Enjoy our modern offices at the Quadrio shopping center, offering beautiful views and excellent accessibility.
- What if I don’t trade? No worries. We’ll show you what our product is all about and introduce you to the basics of trading.
- Free fruit, snacks, and coffee are always within reach in the office.
- How do we promote strong relationships and well-being? Company cottage, team building events, and running club.
- Flexible hybrid model. We prefer collaborating in person to keep the team spirit high, but we offer the flexibility you need to stay balanced.

*The benefits mentioned above apply to FTMO on-site employees in our Prague office.

## About Ftmo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: FTMO is a modern proprietary trading firm that provides traders with simulated capital to evaluate their skills and rewards them with up to 90% of simulated profits.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Prague, Czech Republic
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (the company was founded by a team of trading and technology professionals)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Modern Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading) / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2C – individual retail traders globally, from beginners to experienced professionals
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To help talented traders grow and refine their trading skills" by providing a unique Evaluation Process and simulated trading environment with real rewards.

## Products & Services
- **FTMO Challenge (2-Step)**: A structured evaluation process where traders prove their skills in a simulated environment. Successful completion grants access to an FTMO Account with up to $200K in simulated capital.
- **FTMO Account**: A funded simulated trading account where traders can earn up to 90% of their simulated profits as real rewards. Includes a Scaling Plan and Premium Program for growth.
- **1-Step FTMO Challenge**: A streamlined, single-step evaluation for experienced traders.
- **FTMO Trader Ecosystem**: Includes performance coaching, trading applications, analytics tools, and a community of over 3.5 million customers worldwide.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, bootstrapped company)
- **Key Metric**: Over $500 million paid in rewards to traders worldwide; 3.5 million+ customers across 140+ countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: FTMO acquired OANDA in 2025, a major forex and CFD brokerage. The group now includes FTMO (prop trading) and OANDA (brokerage).
- **Growth Signals**: 300+ employees; acquired OANDA in 2025; OANDA Prop Trader program to conclude in March 2026 to focus on FTMO's core model; 4.8/5 Trustpilot rating; 24/7 support in 20 languages.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in modern prop trading**: Founded in 2015, FTMO pioneered the "challenge-based" evaluation model that has since become an industry standard.
- **Scale and trust**: Over 3.5 million customers, $500M+ in rewards paid, and a 4.8/5 Trustpilot rating create a powerful network effect and brand moat.
- **Integrated group structure**: The 2025 acquisition of OANDA creates a unique powerhouse combining a regulated brokerage (OANDA) with a leading prop trading firm (FTMO), offering cross-sell and data advantages.
- **In-house technology**: Full-stack development team building proprietary trading platforms, risk management systems, and data infrastructure (Elastic, Kafka, Kubernetes, PHP, Python, Kotlin, Flutter, Node.js, .NET, Go).

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Serving 140+ countries with support in 20 languages; continued international growth.
- **Product innovation**: Developing AI-powered tools (AI Software Engineer, AI Knowledge Engineer, AI Education Specialist roles) to enhance trader education and platform intelligence.
- **Group synergies**: Leveraging the 2025 OANDA acquisition to create a comprehensive trading ecosystem, while keeping FTMO focused on its modern prop trading model.
- **Scaling the platform**: Growing the FTMO Account Scaling Plan and Premium Program to retain and reward top traders.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "friendly," "fair," and "driven by enthusiasm." The company values fairness, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Employee satisfaction scores are very high: 95% positive for Employer, 96% for Colleagues, and 96% for Supervisors.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Hybrid model. The main office is in the modern Quadrio building in Prague's historic center. Many roles are listed as remote or Prague-based.
- **Notable perks**: 5 well-being days off, sick days, company cottage in the Krkonoše mountains, Multisport card, VIP discounts, welcome pack, snacks and beverages, modern office in a shopping center, team buildings, courses and education, motivational bonuses, and hardware suitable for your position.
- **Engineering culture**: Modern tech stack (PHP, Python, Kotlin, Flutter, Node.js, .NET, Go, Elastic, Kafka, Kubernetes); cloud-native infrastructure; strong focus on AI and data engineering (multiple AI-specific roles open).
- **Global team**: 300+ employees from diverse backgrounds; support available in 20 languages; operations spanning trading, data, marketing, legal, finance, and HR.

## Sources
1. [FTMO Careers Page](https://careers.ftmo.com/en/)
2. [FTMO Official Website](https://ftmo.com/en/)
3. [FTMO How It Works](https://ftmo.com/en/how-it-works/)
4. [FTMO Press Release - OANDA Prop Trader Conclusion](https://ftmo.com/en/press-release/oanda-prop-trader-to-conclude-as-ftmo-strengthens-its-modern-prop-focus/)
5. [FTMO Contact Page](https://ftmo.com/en/contact/)

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