Lead Exchange Connectivity Engineer
Flowdesk is a full-service digital-asset trading and technology firm. It provides institutional liquidity solutions, OTC trading, and strategic capital and infrastructure support to crypto-native issuers and institutions.
Projects
About Flowdesk
Flowdesk delivers institutional trading and liquidity services for digital asset markets, combining proprietary execution algorithms, risk-management tools, and trading infrastructure. Its offerings include token, stablecoin, exchange and DeFi liquidity solutions; spot, derivatives and credit OTC trading; tokenized-market support; and ventures activity. It serves crypto-native issuers, financial institutions, exchanges, and other institutional counterparties globally.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead exchange connectivity end to end, designing, building, and operating feed handlers across connected venues. You will plan and deliver connectivity go-lives, debug complex production issues, make architectural decisions, set integration standards, mentor engineers, and contribute to HFT infrastructure where connectivity and execution overlap.
Requirements
- Extensive production crypto feed-handler experience across multiple venues at an institutional firm
- Deep understanding of market-data feed handling, order-lifecycle management, and multi-feed aggregation
- At least 2 years of Rust experience across synchronous and asynchronous code
- Demonstrable low-latency Rust development experience or at least 5 years of C++ experience in a low-latency environment
- Strong understanding of HTTP, WebSocket, and TCP/IP
- Understanding of the full go-live cycle, from integration and UAT through production cutover and support
- Experience leading multiple venue migrations end to end, including rollback procedures and minimising trading disruption
- Experience managing exchange-driven changes, upgrade lifecycles, and rapid go-live pressures
- Experience with AI-first development workflows, AI harness engineering, and quality assurance
- Technical leadership or team-lead experience
- Professional proficiency in English
Responsibilities
- Own the design, build, and operation of feed handlers across connected venues
- Lead connectivity go-lives, including planning, staging, testing, cutover, and post-launch support
- Debug complex production connectivity issues across exchange protocols and internal systems
- Set technical standards for exchange integration
- Mentor engineers working on connectivity components
- Contribute to HFT infrastructure where connectivity and execution overlap
Benefits
- 100% health coverage
- Team events and offsites
- Company Pension scheme
- Learning and Development budget