Salary: Roughly $70-100k USD base + strong bonuses (20-50%+)
Summary
This growing crypto trading firm has seen steady growth over the last 3-4 years – not being adversely affected by the wild swings in crypto success due to their robust and sensible strategies. Hugely tech-driven, they have been developing and improving HFT algorithms for more than 10 years, with a tech team boasting engineers from some of the top market makers and hedge funds globally.
They’re now looking for an experienced engineer to join the brand-new Trading Operations team, responsible for ensuring optimal trading operations and reacting promptly to issues. This is a pivotal role, where you’ll work closely with traders and developers to automate workflows, improve system reliability & efficiency, and tackle complex challenges within the HFT space.
This role offers the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge technology, grow professionally, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Skills and Experience Required
- 3-5 years’ experience in software engineering or IT
- Strong Python scripting knowledge, for automation & tooling
- Proficiency with Linux systems, including shell scripting and networking.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
- Strong teamwork and communication skills, including clear and concise documentation
- Commitment to work in shifts and be part of an on-call rota is essential to ensure continuous operation of trading infrastructure
Desirable
- Experience with monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, ElasticSearch or ClickHouse)
- Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible and CI/CD systems)
- Basic experience with AWS cloud services
Benefits:
- Competitive salaries + performance-based bonuses
- Flexible hours and a healthy work-life balance
- Work with the smartest people in one of the fastest-growing and most exciting industries
- Regular paid ‘workations’ to unique places all over the world to work, explore the local culture and get to know colleagues better
- Relocation package available if required
Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.