Senior Engineer Trading Systems

TransFi is a payments infrastructure company that enables secure cross-border payments using stablecoin rails for businesses and individuals globally.

United States
About TransFi

TransFi helps businesses and individuals transfer money across borders by providing payment infrastructure powered by stablecoin rails. With it, you can send and receive payments, access multiple local payment methods, and settle transactions in real-time. TransFi reduces costs and complexity in international money movement with enterprise-grade security.

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About the Role

You will build and operate systems that quote prices and manage inventory across crypto markets. You will develop a pricing engine, implement risk controls, handle market-data and execution failures, integrate exchange APIs with payment and treasury infrastructure, and translate trading-desk needs into production systems.

Requirements

  • Experience building or operating market-making, algorithmic trading, or exchange systems
  • Knowledge of order books, inventory risk, adverse selection, and thin-market quoting risks
  • Experience owning production systems that move real money, including on-call support
  • Backend expertise in Python and JavaScript
  • Ability to work with a trading desk and translate intent into system behavior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the pricing engine, including order book analysis, depth-aware pricing, spread logic, and markup logic
  • Build inventory and exposure limits, position monitoring, kill switches, and circuit breakers
  • Handle stale market data, venue outages, partial fills, self-trades, and price drift
  • Integrate exchange APIs with payment and treasury infrastructure
  • Work with the treasury trading desk and CPTO on requirements and architecture

Benefits

  • Remote-only work