Quantitative Developer Low Latency
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.
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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.
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About the Role
You will build and maintain low-latency trading infrastructure close to the market. You will develop order management systems, design high-throughput feed handlers, implement strategy logic, and integrate it with execution infrastructure. You will write low-level networking and parsing code, connect to exchanges using FIX, WebSocket, and proprietary protocols, and continually profile and improve latency and performance.
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
