Overview

The Company

A top digital currency exchange company.

 

The Responsibilities

The Trading Engine sits at the core of the business and handles all brokerage and trading aspects of the platform.  The Engine team is responsible for order management, risk checking, position keeping, PNL calculations, pricing (derivatives), risk management, market data distribution, order matching, and settlement.

The team will be building a best in class Technology team to help us scale to millions of users and millions of transactions per second.  The company is looking for experts in low latency trading system development, microservice architectures, and scaling.

The right candidate will follow good principles of software engineering like TDD, writing modular, maintainable, clean code, and are used to working in an Agile environment.

 

The Requirements

  • KDB+ experience of 5+ years
  • Deep understanding of internals of KDB+ including the q interpreter, APIs, IPC
  • Strong engineering skill set with firm grasp of fundamental Computer Science principles
  • 5+ years financial experience at a Hedge Fund or Investment Bank building electronic trading systems or other low-latency systems
  • Experience working in and performance tuning a Linux environment
  • Nice to have: experience building microservice architecture systems, test automation, derivatives pricing, scaling, operating system and network layer performance tuning.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics preferable