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Building the Future of Crypto
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The company is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Prime Trading Desk, you will play a key role in building and maintaining the systems that power the company's institutional trading operations. You will collaborate directly with Traders, Quants, Product Managers, and cross-functional engineering teams to design, implement, and optimize backend services core to our trading infrastructure. Your work will impact the performance, reliability, and scalability of mission-critical systems used to execute high-value trades in a fast-moving global market.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Traders, Quants, and Product Managers to deliver customized software solutions aligned with trading objectives.
- Design and implement scalable, high-performance, low-latency backend systems to support institutional trading workflows.
- Own the end-to-end development of major features, including architecture, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, focusing on reliability and performance.
- Maintain and enhance continuously running services with high availability requirements.
- Integrate with third-party APIs (REST, FIX, WebSocket), normalizing and aggregating real-time market and trading data.
- Conduct thorough code reviews, identify bugs, and implement robust fixes to maintain production integrity.
Skills You Should HODL:
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in trading, fintech, or financial services.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang) in production environments.
- Strong command of SQL (MySQL, Postgres) and experience with caching/datastores such as Redis.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with non-technical stakeholders in a fast-paced setting.
- Solid understanding of software architecture principles and system design.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with Rust or Python for systems-level or quantitative development.
- Knowledge of gRPC and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
- Proficiency in designing RESTful APIs and familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger standards.
- Experience deploying services in containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, or Nomad.
- Familiarity with AWS services (e.g., S3, RDS) and infrastructure best practices.
- Hands-on experience developing systems for options trading, including pricing, risk, and volatility modeling.
- Prior experience in crypto, FX, or derivatives trading platforms.
We encourage candidates with diverse backgrounds to apply, especially those with a passion for or knowledge of crypto.
