Venture Search has partnered with a leading global crypto market-maker, that are looking for a talented engineer to join their team. You will collaborate with a team of highly skilled and motivated professionals, leveraging diverse expertise to drive innovation, deliver high-quality code, and contribute to the achievement of measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain a high-performance, highly available adaptive trading platform that integrates a wide range of centralized finance (CeFi), decentralized finance (DeFi), and over-the-counter (OTC) liquidity sources.
- Apply software development best practices to enhance and extend functionalities related to order management, compliance, exchange connectivity, market data, and trade routing.
- Lead the design and implementation of our next-generation real-time trading platform.
- Oversee the operation and support of the global trading system, including troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving technical issues.
- Collaborate closely with traders and business development teams to rapidly prototype and implement new features and enhancements.
- Mentor junior engineers, serving as a role model and supporting their ongoing professional development.
- Proven experience developing infrastructure components for high-volume, low-latency trading environments within proprietary trading firms or hedge funds.
- Strong expertise in building highly performant, distributed, and optimized systems with a focus on high throughput and/or low latency, using C# or modern C++ (C++11 or later) within a Linux environment.
- Results-oriented with the ability to balance rapid delivery with the creation of robust, scalable, and highly available platforms.
- Familiarity with metaprogramming, Git, CI/CD pipelines, unit and integration testing, Kafka, FIX protocol, and cloud technologies.
- Effective communicator who proactively shares insights, contributes to discussions constructively, and embraces a “disagree and commit” mindset.
- Knowledge of order management systems (OMS), portfolio management systems (PMS), exchange connectivity, or high-volume OTC trading is a distinct advantage.