Senior Backend Engineer - Exchange

Requirements

Experience Required

• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in the financial trading domain (exchanges, proprietary trading firms, market makers, brokers, etc.) and at least 2 years working in the crypto industry.
• General understanding of the general Exchange microstructure model and components
• Experience in developing high-load and high-throughput systems, serving large (thousands to millions) amounts of incoming API connections.
• Good understanding of the CEX operating principles and client-facing APIs (market data, ordering, balance monitoring, historical inquiries, etc.)
• Experience in designing and building various Exchange Risk Management engines and models, specifically: margin models and engines, liquidation models and engines, derivative contract models (specifically crypto futures/options, perpetual futures, perpetual options)
• Experience working in small focus teams of high-skilled developers.
• The ideal candidate should also have experience building and running/operating Exchange’s client account-related components in production.
  

Necessary Skills

• Good knowledge of the Linux operating system
• Solid hands-on experience in Go
• Understanding or messaging protocol engines and models (gRPC, Protobuf, Thrift, Avro, etc.)
• Hands-on experience working with one of the Message Broker solutions (Kafka, RocketMQ, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with the Continuous Integration principles (unit testing, pull requests, GitHub, or any specific continuous integration engine like GitLab/Jenkins/etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience in building high memory load models and high throughput data processing pipelines
• Good knowledge of code analysis and profiling techniques and tools (for example, Coverity, Valgrind, etc.)
• Personal: self-sufficient with good hard and soft skills, committed and responsible, able to perform well under pressure
  

Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Experience in C++ and/or Java (optional)
• Experience working with Application Containers and Container Orchestrators (example: Kubernetes or Nomad)
• Experience working under Continuous Delivery and Zero-Downtime models (for example: blue-green deployments, canary deployments, etc.)
• Knowledge of Google Cloud and AWS Cloud Infrastructure and components (products)
• Good understanding or experience in Scrum methodology
• Understanding various trading models, types of trading, and rationale behind trading and market making
• a solid plus goes to candidates who are doing any crypto trading (or any other asset classes) themselves on a private basis