Senior Low Latency Engineer
GSR is a global digital-asset capital-markets firm providing crypto market making, OTC trading, execution, treasury, derivatives, advisory, and investment services.
About GSR
Founded in 2013, GSR operates across digital-asset markets as a dealer, counterparty, and liquidity provider. Its offering includes market making across centralized and decentralized venues, systematic and high-touch OTC trading, algorithmic execution, treasury solutions, derivatives and structured products, digital-asset advisory, and venture backing for crypto founders, institutions, token issuers, and exchanges.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and build production-critical components of a low-latency trading platform in Rust. You will improve market connectivity, order placement, trade and balance management, data quality, and data provenance. You will also build APIs and services that enable self-service analytics and work with quants, traders, operations, and engineers to deliver solutions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of fintech experience in traditional finance and/or crypto
- Experience in a front-office environment
- Computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related background, or equivalent experience
- Experience coding in Rust or C++
- Experience building low-latency distributed systems and networking components
- Understanding of market data feeds, reference data, and trading workflows
- Relationship and communication skills to bridge front-office requirements and engineering execution
- Familiarity with streaming and messaging systems is preferred; Aeron is preferred
Responsibilities
- Design and build core components of the low-latency trading platform in Rust
- Maintain data quality, cataloguing, and provenance tracing across the platform
- Build APIs and services that provide self-service analytics data
- Build and maintain market connectivity, order placement, and trade and balance management functionality
- Improve market connectivity and trading infrastructure
- Partner with quants, traders, operations, and engineers to prioritize and deliver solutions
- Contribute hands-on development on production-critical systems
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Retirement planning
- 30 days of holiday
- Free lunches when in the office
- Regular town halls, team lunches, offsites, and social events
- Charity matching and volunteer days
- Immigration and relocation support where required