Vice President, Trading & Derivatives Tech

Skills

About the Role

You will design, implement, and operate core trading infrastructure including the matching engine, perpetuals engine, margin accounting, and liquidation systems. You will own real-time risk calculations, drive correctness through simulation and testing, conduct architecture reviews, and mentor peers while improving reliability and performance under production load.

Requirements

• Production CLOB experience
• Experience shipping perpetuals or derivatives trading systems with margin accounting and liquidation
• Ownership of real-time risk engines and margin models
• Expertise building low-latency, high-throughput systems (Rust, Java, or C++)
• Strong understanding of concurrency, lock-free data structures, and memory layout
• Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging infrastructure (Aeron, Chronicle Queue, Kafka or equivalent)
• Experience with distributed state replication, event-sourcing or WAL-based recovery, and failure handling
• Experience with simulation-based and property-based testing for financial systems
• 8+ years in software engineering with significant experience building and operating production trading infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a high-performance Central Limit Order Book with correct order handling and partial fills
• Architect the matching engine for correctness and low latency, including crash recovery and state consistency
• Build resilience against adversarial trading patterns and enforce pre-trade controls
• Contribute to hybrid CLOB + RFQ routing for best execution across onchain and offchain liquidity
• Implement the perpetuals engine with position and margin accounting, funding rate logic, and cross-collateralization
• Design and operate the liquidation system including escalation, auto-deleveraging, and insurance fund mechanics
• Own the real-time risk calculation layer and maintain system-level invariants that protect user capital
• Define and maintain correctness guarantees via automated testing, simulation, and continuous validation
• Lead adversarial testing and chaos simulation to surface failure modes before production
• Conduct architecture reviews and mentor the trading systems engineering practices