Software Engineer - Trading Backend
Skills
About the Role
You will build and maintain centralized trading infrastructure and server-side components, primarily using C++, to power real-time trading systems. You will design and implement high-performance APIs, optimize system latency, work with colocation hardware and cloud resources, support production environments, and improve observability and testing.
Requirements
- Strong background in performance-critical software engineering and system-level tuning
- Proven experience in systems programming languages such as C++ or Rust
- Experience in financial services, fintech, or crypto
- Proficient in Linux development and operations
- Experience with low-latency messaging technologies and transports
- 5+ years of experience with modern C++ (C++17 or newer) and tooling (CMake, gcc/clang, gtest)
- Linux administration and performance tuning skills
- Experience with advanced performance techniques such as kernel bypass networking (DPDK), CPU isolation, core affinity, and memory optimizations (huge pages, cache alignment)
- Familiarity with security hardening practices
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cost optimization
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals and administration (VLANs, firewalls, VPNs, DNS)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform)
- Experience with observability and monitoring frameworks (Grafana, Prometheus)
- Familiarity with modern SDLC workflows and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain trading system applications and supporting code infrastructure
- Work with colocation hardware and cloud resources
- Utilize automated testing tools to validate code changes and ensure reliability
- Support DevOps processes and SDLC tooling
- Participate in code reviews
- Support development, user acceptance testing, and production environments
- Document and maintain public APIs and internal documentation
- Identify and implement observability tools for monitoring and troubleshooting
Benefits
- Full healthcare coverage
- Equity
- Remote flexibility