Wintermute helps traders and institutions access digital asset liquidity through algorithmic market making and OTC services. Users can trade various tokens, access derivatives markets, and execute large orders without market impact. Wintermute provides deep liquidity across centralized and decentralized platforms.

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Skills

Api Architecture Ci/Cd Database Go Low-Latency Mentoring Message Queue Microservice Monitoring Node.Js Python React Real-Time Security Typescript Websocket

Candidate Availability

Onsite · London · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

Lead development of the NODE trading platform through hands-on technical architecture, delivery, engineering leadership, secure system design, observability, and low-latency real-time trading experiences.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role
Proven experience making architecture decisions for complex, data-intensive applications
Deep experience building and scaling real-time, high-data-volume systems
Strong command of TypeScript, React, and Node.js
Hands-on server-side experience with Node.js, Python, Go, or similar languages
Understanding of APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, WebSockets, message queues, and databases
Experience with CI/CD, cloud platforms, CDN, monitoring, observability, and deployment strategies
Strong understanding of OWASP, authentication, authorization, and secure data handling
Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing engineering teams
Nice to have: trading or fintech experience, algorithmic trading familiarity, and performance optimization at scale

Responsibilities

Define and own technical architecture for trading products, client portals, and internal applications
Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers and set coding and review standards
Drive technical strategy and translate business requirements into scalable solutions
Architect systems for high data volumes, real-time streaming, and low-latency interactions
Oversee frontend experience across the customer lifecycle including onboarding and trading dashboards
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, marketing, trading, and backend teams to ensure alignment
Establish and evolve engineering processes including sprint planning, incident response, and deployment pipelines

Benefits

UK visa sponsorship
Relocation assistance to London

Hiring Process

Applicants should send a short, honest, direct message explaining why they want to lead engineering at Wintermute, including a hard architecture decision they made, its tradeoffs, and the outcome. Generic applications are discouraged.