Lead Trading Infrastructure Engineer

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RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Design, build, and scale decentralized matching engine, risk system, and limit order book for for a high-performance trading protocol and its surrounding backend systems
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in navigating tradeoffs (architecture, timeline, etc.)
• Ensure best practices within the engineering team through guidance on architecture, code reviews, performance, testing, efficiency, and other engineering excellence improvements
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, researchers and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end-to-end
• Mentor and develop junior engineers

• 8+ years experience working as a backend software engineer
• Experience with trading system development at a mid/high frequency firm writing code to communicate with exchanges (i.e. order entry and low latency feed handlers)
• And/or experience working on exchange infrastructure, dealing with low latency order intake, risk checks, and matching
• Strong experience in one or more systems or backend programming languages (e.g. Go, Rust, C++, Python)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and software architectures, excellent coding skills, strong CS fundamentals, and strong debugging capabilities
• Fast learner who can quickly master new technologies