Senior/Staff Engineer, Liquidity Platform, Trading Service

Key Responsibilities

• Design and optimize high throughput order execution systems with sub-millisecond latency targets
• Build real time market data pipelines aggregating order books and price feeds from multiple exchanges
• Implement position tracking with exchange reconciliation, risk limits, and multi account support
• Develop exchange connectivity using FIX 5.0+, WebSocket, and HTTP/2 protocols
• Profile and eliminate latency hotspots using garbage free coding and lock free concurrency
• Implement pre-trade risk controls, circuit breakers, and rate limiters

Qualifications

• Solid STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics) education background.
• 5-8 years software development experience, preferably in trading/oms/latency sensitive systems
• Strong Java 17+ proficiency with understanding of JVM internals and GC behavior
• Hands-on experience with FIX 5.0+, WebSocket, and HTTP/2 protocols
• Solid multi-threaded programming and concurrent systems knowledge
• Understanding of order lifecycle and market microstructure basics
• Strong problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast paced environment

Preferred Skills

• Cryptocurrency/Digital Assets: Crypto exchange APIs, DeFi, blockchain trading
• Execution Algorithms: TWAP, VWAP, iceberg, sniper, or other smart order routing strategies
• IPC Technologies: Aeron, Chronicle Queue, shared memory messaging
• Proficiency or strong interest in Rust for performance critical systems development
• Low latency libraries: Agrona Collections, Protocol Buffers, SBE for high performance serialization
• Spring Framework, Netty, Vert.x
• Timeseries databases (e.g InfluxDB)
• Redis, etcd for caching and coordination

Technical Environment