Staff Software Engineer – Market Maker

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of a significant domain within the market-making pipeline.

• Develop and sustain systems that manage high-throughput, low-latency event streams.

• Collaborate with the Senior Staff engineer and the trading team on cross-domain technical decisions.

• Contribute to the abstraction layer of the exchange.

• Create and enhance internal Trading UI tools.

• Diagnose and address production issues in a live trading setting.

• Proactively recognize performance bottlenecks and potential technical risks.

• Contribute to the engineering standards at the team level.

• Develop a strong understanding of our trading economics.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems within production settings.

• Strong practical expertise with Java, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, and Postgres.

• Extensive experience with event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging.

• Proven track record of end-to-end domain ownership.

• Strong instincts for performance optimization.

• Effective and straightforward communicator.

• High tolerance for ambiguity and speed.

• At least 3 years of experience in developing systems where latency, throughput, and cost efficiency are consistently balanced (preferred).

• Background in real-time trading, financial infrastructure, market data platforms, or prediction markets (preferred).

• Familiarity with FIX protocol or exchange connectivity patterns (preferred).

• Working knowledge of quantitative concepts (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• 401(k) matching.

• Flexible work hours.

• Paid time off.