Quantitative Developer Low Latency
Full-service digital-asset trading and technology firm providing liquidity solutions, institutional OTC trading, tokenized-market infrastructure, and strategic digital-asset investment.
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About Flowdesk
Flowdesk operates institutional digital-asset market infrastructure and trading services, combining proprietary execution algorithms, risk management, global venue connectivity, liquidity provision, OTC spot/derivatives/credit trading, and tokenized-asset liquidity. Its clients include institutions, token issuers, exchanges, and professional market participants. The website is operated by Flowdesk SAS, headquartered in Paris, France.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Build and maintain low-latency trading infrastructure, including order management systems, high-throughput feed handlers, strategy logic, low-level networking, exchange connectivity, and latency optimization.
Requirements
- Hands-on production experience building order management systems, feed handlers, and/or strategy logic
- Strong Rust experience, including async and synchronous or bare-metal Rust
- Low-level networking experience, including socket programming, protocol implementation, and latency-aware design
- Experience writing fast parsing code for binary protocols, custom formats, and minimal-copy pipelines
- Production experience with FIX protocol and WebSocket connectivity
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and state synchronization
- TradFi or institutional crypto market-making background
- Experience with kernel-bypass networking such as DPDK or RDMA
- Familiarity with lock-free data structures and wait-free concurrency
- Options or derivatives experience
- C++ background
- Professional proficiency in English
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain order management systems
- Design and optimize high-throughput market-data feed handlers
- Implement strategy logic and integrate it with execution infrastructure
- Write low-level networking code for protocol parsing, socket management, and kernel-bypass techniques
- Build fast parsing pipelines for market data and order flow
- Implement exchange connectivity using FIX, WebSocket, and proprietary protocols
- Profile latency, benchmark systems, and continuously improve performance
Benefits
- 100% health coverage
- Team events and offsites
- Company Pension scheme
- Learning and Development budget
Hiring Process
Stage 1: Talent Acquisition interview. Stage 2: Take-home assignment and online technical screen. Stage 3: CTO interview covering system design and technical experience. Stage 4: Online CoderPad interview with the HFT team, Rust-focused. Stage 5: In-person technical interview covering live coding, data structures and algorithms, background, and goals. Stage 6: Round-up meeting with the Head of Talent Strategy.