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Flowdesk

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