Lead Software Engineer Clearing Engineering
Bullish helps you trade cryptocurrencies securely through a regulated exchange that combines traditional order books with automated market making.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Bullish
Bullish helps institutional traders execute cryptocurrency transactions through a regulated Gibraltar-licensed platform. You can trade spot assets, access margin funding, and trade perpetual futures with cross-collateralized accounts. The exchange combines traditional central limit order books with automated market making to provide consistent liquidity and tight spreads across market conditions.
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About the Role
You will design and maintain high-performance risk systems for clearing operations. You will architect market data infrastructure, improve resilience and throughput, enforce testing and SDLC standards, optimize performance, and translate complex requirements into technical specifications. You will also shape target-state architecture and mentor others.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience supporting front office trading systems at a regulated financial institution.
- Deep knowledge of risk management frameworks including margining methodologies default waterfall mechanics Mark-to-Market valuation stress testing and backtesting engines.
- Strong understanding of derivatives including options futures and Greeks.
- Expert-level Java proficiency.
- Experience with performance tuning garbage collection optimization concurrency and memory management.
- Implementation experience with Aeron and Kafka.
- Expertise in data structures event schemas and database models.
- Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL data stores including Postgres Redis and MongoDB.
- Understanding of testing methodologies SDLC best practices Twelve-Factor App distributed high availability and disaster recovery strategies and hexagonal architecture.
- Ability to use large language models to accelerate development.
- Experience with AWS GCP Kubernetes Docker Airflow or DBT is desirable.
- Knowledge of FIX and FIXML protocols is desirable.
- Familiarity with Databricks Snowflake BigQuery Tableau or Superset is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain high-performance risk systems.
- Architect infrastructure for ingesting and transforming market data.
- Apply data models and workflows across risk management regulatory reporting and clearing.
- Ensure high availability disaster recovery data freshness and throughput.
- Enforce code quality automated testing and SDLC best practices.
- Identify bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies through performance profiling.
- Translate complex requirements into technical specifications.
- Drive target-state platform architecture evolution.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual target bonus
- Performance incentives
