Staff Engineer, Trading Automation and Backend Platforms
Flow Traders provides continuous liquidity across global financial markets through technology-enabled market making and trading services.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders helps institutional clients and market participants access liquidity across multiple asset classes through continuous market making services. You can trade ETPs, digital assets, fixed income, commodities, and FX products with enhanced execution quality. Flow Traders reduces trading costs and increases market efficiency through proprietary technology and global presence.
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About the Role
You will join Flow Traders as a senior individual contributor leading the architectural and technical direction for the Trading Automation and Backend Engineering teams across the full trade lifecycle. You will tackle ambiguous, large-scale problems, set global engineering standards, and mentor tech leads and engineers across multiple teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or cross-team Lead level
- Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and drive consensus across multiple teams
- Deep expertise in building distributed, high-performance, and highly reliable backend systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one core backend language such as Python, Go, C++, or Java
- Experience with event-driven architectures such as Kafka, Flink, Databricks, Dataproc and data pipelines
- Solid understanding of modern infrastructure, observability, and cloud platforms
- Nice-to-have knowledge of financial workflows including ETF creation/redemption, clearing, and custody
- Nice-to-have experience with financial reference data, symbology, or instrument modeling
- Nice-to-have familiarity with MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR and data lineage requirements
- Nice-to-have background in financial services, trading, or market making
- Nice-to-have working knowledge of the trading lifecycle including order flow, execution, and post-trade/settlement flows
Responsibilities
- Define and own the long-term technical architecture for trading automation, risk, and post-trade platforms
- Translate complex, ambiguous business problems into clear, executable technical roadmaps
- Architect scalable, event-driven systems optimized for high throughput, data integrity, and reliability
- Elevate engineering standards across the organization, focusing on system design, observability, reliability, and scalability
- Mentor senior engineers, guide tech leads, and drive technical alignment across fragmented systems
- Lead efforts to responsibly decommission legacy systems in favor of modern, scalable services
- Partner closely with trading, quant, risk, and operations teams to align technical choices with business value
- Drive automation in post-trade and middle-office workflows such as allocations, settlements, and reconciliations to reduce operational risk
Benefits
- Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch, coffee, and stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house bar and lounge with games
- Company boat
- In-house gym and sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip and other events
- Global rotations across offices worldwide
- Annual discretionary profit share
- Comprehensive benefits