Senior Software Engineer Applications and Infrastructure
Acheron Trading is a digital asset market maker that provides robust, tradable liquidity across a broad price spectrum, ensuring efficient price discovery and sustainable market depth for digital assets. They serve innovators and institutional clients building on centralized and decentralized exchanges worldwide.
About Acheron Trading
Acheron Trading provides liquidity and market-making services for the digital assets industry, offering principal market making (PMM), designated market making (DMM), managed execution, and a technology provider offering (Command Station) for professional trading infrastructure and software licensing with consulting. The firm emphasizes transparency and real-time execution to support efficient price discovery and sustainable market depth across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Its team is composed of domain experts in pure and applied mathematics, computer science, actuarial/risk management sciences, economics, consulting, accounting, and regulatory matters, with members having prior experience at firms such as Goldman Sachs, PwC, and Macquarie Group, and ties to academic institutions including Princeton, Cornell, and MIT. Acheron Trading's clients are primarily innovators and institutions operating in the digital asset markets across both centralized and decentralized exchange venues.
Skills
About the Role
You lead the applications domain, oversee client and internal financial tooling, govern ledgers and payment pipelines, enforce application security, and deputize for infrastructure by managing environments, observability, release controls, and disaster recovery.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years in an engineering leadership role
- Experience guiding software engineering teams in startup or scaling environments
- Experience establishing UAT environments, mandatory pull request reviews, and release governance
- Architectural familiarity with Go, Python, and Rust
- Experience with distributed microservices
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL and Redis
- Experience with REST, WebSockets, and gRPC
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Experience in regulated fintech, payments, digital assets, or trading platforms preferred
- Familiarity with MAS Technology Risk Management, ISO 27001, or equivalent frameworks preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead the applications domain
- Direct architecture and delivery of client dashboards, merchant portals, balance interfaces, and customer API gateways
- Oversee internal administration portals and trade reconciliation workflows
- Own multi-asset ledger and accounting-book application logic
- Manage fiat, stablecoin, payment, and payout pipelines
- Enforce API key, OAuth, JWT, MFA, and four-eyes security controls
- Deputize for infrastructure
- Co-own platform architecture, observability, cloud environments, and disaster recovery
- Implement isolated UAT and staging environments
- Establish CI/CD gates, static analysis rules, and production access controls
Benefits
- Employee revenue share bonus pool paid semiannually
