💻 Role: Senior Software Engineer – Trading Systems
🌍 Location: London - hybrid (meet once a month)
💰 Salary: £150,000 to £200,000 + Guaranteed and Performance Bonus'
🛠 Key Skills: Rust, Trading Systems/Exchanges, Crypto/Blockchain
An innovative fintech start-up, backed by significant private investment, is looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to build its next-generation trading platform from scratch. Combining traditional finance expertise with blockchain innovation, the company offers a unique opportunity to shape critical financial infrastructure at the earliest stage.
You will need hands-on experience in trading system engineering, ideally gained within crypto/blockchain start-ups, investment banks, hedge funds, market makers, or proprietary trading firms.
Key Responsibilities:
* Design, build, and optimise low-latency, high-throughput backend trading systems.
* Develop and maintain trading infrastructure such as market data feed handlers, algorithmic execution engines, backtesting frameworks, and risk management systems.
* Deliver robust trading connectivity, order execution, and position management solutions.
* Collaborate with financial and blockchain product teams to ensure seamless platform integration.
Essential Expertise:
* Proven background in building trading systems for major financial institutions or trading firms.
* Hands-on development of core trading infrastructure, including market connectivity and execution frameworks.
* Strong programming skills, writing clean, modular, and efficient code, and working with modern engineering practices (TDD, CI/CD, SOLID principles), ideally with Rust.
* Deep knowledge of financial markets, including order routing, execution optimisation, and multi-venue trade reconciliation.
* Experience with crypto markets, particularly derivatives such as perpetual swaps, futures, and other digital assets.
* High-performance system design, focused on ultra-low-latency execution and high-throughput architectures.
* Excellent problem-solving ability, capable of designing scalable, high-quality technical solutions.
* Advocate for automated testing, with real-world experience in unit, integration, regression, and performance testing.
Offer:
* Salary between £150,000–£200,000 + guaranteed and performance bonus'.
* Hybrid working with access to a Central London office (1–4 days per month) - the core team are London based and are open to meeting more regularly.
* High-impact role building mission-critical systems at an early-stage, well-funded start-up.