Job Description
⚡ Senior Trading Systems Engineer
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🌍 Remote | US
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💲 $300k-$500k
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About The Client
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I've recently partnered with a proprietary trading and market-making firm focused on prediction markets. They provide liquidity and automated execution across event-driven markets such as politics, sports, economics, crypto, and global news. Having recently just crossed $2B in volume on Kalshi, they're looking to expand their 19-person trading desk by brining on a senior trading systems engineer.
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What You'll Do
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- Building and maintaining integrations with external trading and market-data venues
- Developing low-latency market-data and order-management systems
- Designing robust execution frameworks and state-machine-driven workflows
- Managing order lifecycles including acknowledgements, fills, cancellations, replacements, and recovery
- Building automated pre-trade and post-trade risk controls
- Creating reconciliation tooling to ensure internal records match venue state
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What They're Looking For
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- Strong software engineering experience in Rust, Go, Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, or similar
- Experience in electronic trading, financial infrastructure, payments etc.
- Deep understanding of concurrency, distributed systems, messaging, and fault tolerance
- Experience integrating external APIs and real-time streaming systems
- Strong knowledge of state management, recovery, retries, idempotency, and event processing
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What they're offering
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- Base + % of annual revenue share
- Build the execution platform for a growing automated trading desk
- Work on systems connected to live markets and real capital
- Work closely with quantitative researchers and experienced traders.
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