About the Role / About the Job
The company is building the next generation US-based global derivatives exchange, starting with digital assets and progressively expanding to encompass a full spectrum of commodities worldwide. As part of a team that operates a US CFTC regulated exchange (DCM), clearinghouse (DCO), and brokerage (FCM), you will work on a range of crypto-settled derivatives, including futures, options, and a suite of live perpetual futures. This role involves designing and implementing the services and data models that record every order, fill, and settlement at our regulated exchange and clearinghouse, with the database as a first-class part of the design.
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The Opportunity
- Build, test, and ship well-typed, well-reviewed features and fixes in Haskell services across the exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage.
- Understand the order, trade, clearing, and settlement flows end to end.
- Design schema, constraints, and indexes for new features, ensuring numerical accuracy and audit trails.
- Write migrations that are lock-safe and reversible on large tables, and review migrations created by other engineers.
- Analyze execution plans, identify slow queries using production metrics, and rectify issues in queries, indexes, or access patterns.
- Monitor systems, respond to alerts, and support daily operations, including settlement cycles.
- Investigate and resolve production issues, documenting lessons learned.
What You Bring
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, particularly with functional or strongly typed languages such as Haskell, Rust, or C++.
- Strong skills in SQL and PostgreSQL, particularly in handling transactions and isolation levels.
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency, and distributed systems.
- Willingness to participate in on-call and operational shifts.
- A meticulous approach to code and data, especially those related to financial transactions.
- Practical judgment with AI tools; able to use them to enhance productivity while ensuring comprehension of generated outputs.
- A mindset inclined towards inquiry, always asking why before implementing changes.
- Ability to maintain sound judgment under pressure with a calm and methodical approach during live operations.
- Collaborative mindset to work across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance with a commitment to documentation.
Nice to Haves
- Knowledge or experience in financial markets, trading, or related services.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in Haskell, especially with PostgreSQL-backed services.
- Familiarity with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL in a production environment.
- Experience handling time series or market data at scale, including tick data, order books, or event streams.
- Experience using Atlas or other declarative schema management tools.
Commitment to Diversity
We celebrate the diverse talents, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit and encourage applications from individuals who may not fulfill all listed requirements, especially if they are passionate about or have knowledge of crypto.
We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment, and we assess candidates in a manner consistent with local regulations regarding fair employment practices.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any protected characteristic.
