Software Engineer (EMS)
Elwood Technologies LLP is the FCA-authorised operating company behind Elwood, an institutional operating system for 24/7 markets. Its modular platform provides execution, portfolio, risk, collateral, and reconciliation workflows for professional institutional clients trading digital and traditional assets.
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About Elwood Technologies LLP
Elwood Technologies LLP provides institutional-grade, API-first market infrastructure spanning the full trade lifecycle. Its platform connects exchanges, liquidity providers, custodians, and counterparties, unifying execution management, real-time portfolio and IBOR functions, quantitative risk analytics, collateral and margin oversight, and continuous reconciliation. The company is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority under FRN 989174 and serves professional clients rather than retail users.
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About the Role
You will design, build, and optimise a multi-region, multi-tenanted Execution Management System. You will develop low-latency and high-throughput components, improve critical-path performance, maintain fault-tolerant services, and support data consistency across regions. You will also implement monitoring and alerting, review code, collaborate across functions, and use AI coding assistants critically.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional backend engineering experience with concurrent performance-sensitive systems
- Production Rust expertise and ability to explain and defend a non-trivial Rust system
- Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures such as NATS or Aeron
- Knowledge of multi-tenancy patterns and best practices
- Familiarity with AWS GCP or Azure and multi-region deployment tools
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL SQLite Redis and ZooKeeper
- Experience with Prometheus Grafana or the ELK stack
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of crypto markets and products is desirable
- Experience leveraging LLMs to accelerate delivery
- Financial services experience and trading or EMS platform experience are desired
Responsibilities
- Design and implement low-latency high-throughput EMS systems
- Analyse and optimise critical system paths
- Maintain distributed fault-tolerant systems across multiple regions
- Ensure data consistency and low-latency communication
- Implement real-time monitoring telemetry and alerting
- Collaborate with product QA and infrastructure stakeholders
- Review code rigorously
- Use AI coding assistants critically
Benefits
- Fully paid medical scheme for employees and their family
- Discounted dental scheme for employees and their family
- Generous time off and bank holidays
- Enhanced parental leave after one year of employment
- Weekly Ubereats allowance
- Free onsite gym
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Paid study leave
- Personal leave
