Staff Engineer, Trading Automation and Backend Platforms
Flow Traders is a global liquidity provider that delivers continuous liquidity in financial markets, with deep expertise in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The firm lowers overall trading costs for market participants by providing higher execution quality across global exchanges and trading platforms.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders is a technology-driven liquidity provider operating in global financial markets, with a particular focus on Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The company combines deep ETP expertise, cutting-edge technology, and strong risk management to increase transparency and efficiency across the financial ecosystem, serving market participants such as exchanges and trading platforms across Europe, the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. Beyond its core trading business, Flow Traders operates a dedicated strategic capital investment unit that partners with companies aligned to its mission of transparency and efficiency in financial markets, and it runs the Flow Traders Foundation, a philanthropic initiative focused on fighting poverty.
Skills
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. Operating across the full trade lifecycle spanning pre-trade, execution, and post-trade, you will bridge the gap between engineering, trading, and operations. You will tackle ambiguous, large-scale problems, set global engineering standards, and scale your impact by mentoring 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
- Deep knowledge of specific financial workflows such as ETF creation/redemption, clearing, custody (nice to have)
- Experience with financial reference data, symbology, or instrument modeling (nice to have)
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR and their data lineage requirements (nice to have)
- Solid background in financial services, trading, or market making (nice to have)
- Strong working knowledge of the trading lifecycle including order flow, execution, and post-trade/settlement flows (nice to have)
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, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
- Company boat
- In-house gym and sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event
- Global rotations across offices worldwide
- Annual discretionary profit share
- Comprehensive benefits