Software Engineer - Exchange Integrations
Raven is a proprietary high-frequency trading and market-making firm. It provides institutional liquidity across crypto, DeFi, centralized exchanges, prediction markets, and traditional financial venues for exchanges and token issuers.
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About Raven
Raven is a proprietary algorithmic high-frequency trading firm focused on liquidity provision and market making. It operates across centralized and decentralized crypto venues, prediction markets, and traditional financial markets, using low-latency trading infrastructure and its own capital. Raven offers liquidity programs for token issuers, multi-venue coverage, TGE market making, and anchor-liquidity engagements for new exchanges and market venues.
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About the Role
You will own exchange integrations from venue documentation through production. You will build REST WebSocket and FIX connectivity manage signing and session lifecycles and support centralized DeFi and prediction-market venues. You will optimize quoting latency maintain resilient order and account state and detect reliability issues before they affect trading.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating low-latency networked systems
- Protocol experience with text and binary TCP and WebSocket communication
- Deep Rust or modern C++ knowledge
- Distributed-systems experience with consistency idempotency and reconciliation
- Linux and networking depth
- Understanding of TLS and signing costs on hot paths
- Ability to measure and validate performance improvements
- Fluent English
- No degree or certifications required
Responsibilities
- Build and operate venue integrations
- Implement REST WebSocket and FIX connectivity
- Manage session lifecycles reconnects and cancel-on-disconnect behavior
- Optimize quote-to-wire and quote-to-ack latency
- Maintain order state and account state machines
- Reconcile balances positions and venue state
- Implement blockchain transaction and nonce management
- Monitor failover degraded modes maintenance windows and anomalies
Hiring Process
Four stages. No filler rounds, no games. 1. Intro call: short conversation with the hiring lead, context on the role/firm, understand fit. 2. Technical deep-dive: role-specific, understand how you think. 3. Take-home or case: a scoped problem reflecting actual work, review the output with you. 4. Onsite or final round: meet the broader team, cultural fit, stretch discussion, offers move fast after this.