About the Role
As a core derivatives trading systems developer, you will design and develop key systems that enhance order processing, position management, and real-time account risk controls within the trading environment specializing in perpetual contracts, futures, and options. Your contributions will be critical in ensuring system performance, reliability, and consistency while collaborating with various teams to implement trading rules and risk requirements effectively.
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Responsibilities
- Design and develop core derivatives trading systems covering order processing, position management, and real-time account risk controls, supporting perpetual contracts, futures, and options.
- Design high-performance data structures, concurrency models, and event-processing mechanisms to ensure consistency and correctness across orders, trades, positions, and account balances.
- Collaborate with product, risk management, and operations teams to translate trading rules and risk requirements into clear, verifiable system implementations.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, performance testing, and production troubleshooting to improve engineering quality and observability.
Requirements
- Fluency in English.
- At least 5 years of C++ development experience, with hands-on experience building high-performance, highly concurrent, or low-latency systems.
- Proficiency in modern C++, with a deep understanding of object lifetimes, memory management, templates, and the STL, and the ability to write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code.
- A deep understanding of multithreading, atomic operations, memory models, and thread synchronization, with the ability to diagnose and resolve concurrency correctness and performance issues.
- Experience with Linux systems programming and network programming, including TCP/UDP, I/O multiplexing, and common network performance bottlenecks.
- An understanding of how CPU caches, cache coherence, false sharing, and NUMA affect performance, with experience using tools such as perf for performance analysis and optimization.
- Experience designing complex stateful systems and addressing event ordering, idempotency, state consistency, and fault recovery.
- A strong focus on correctness and reliability, with solid analytical skills and the ability to independently investigate complex issues, design solutions, and implement them.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing systems for exchanges, brokerages, futures trading, quantitative trading, or financial infrastructure.
- Familiarity with derivatives trading mechanics, including margin, leverage, isolated and cross margin, mark prices, funding rates, liquidation, and settlement.
- Experience with lock-free data structures, CPU affinity, memory pools, zero-copy techniques, or SIMD optimization.
Why Join Us
At the company, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment.
Our benefits include:
- Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.
- Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.
- Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.
- Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.
- Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.
