Trading Engineer

2 weeks ago

Singapore eFinancialCareers Full time

About the Opportunity

The Trading Service team is the backbone of our exchange's industry-leading trading product, which is utilized by millions of users. We are responsible for the core order and position management systems, enabling a full spectrum of trading products, including manual, automatic, and social trading, as well as brokerage services. Our platform supports diverse financial instruments such as spot, margin, futures, options, and perpetuals.

Join our high-performing Trading Service team as a Staff Software Engineer, a pivotal individual contributor role focused on building and enhancing our cutting-edge, ultra-low latency trading platform. With 7-8 years of experience, you deliver exceptional solutions, mentors others, and influences significant technical decisions. You'll tackle some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems, high-performance computing, and financial technology, ensuring our platform remains industry-leading for millions of users.

What You'll Be Doing
  • Lead the technical design and implement high-impact features for critical trading components
  • Optimize and resolve performance bottlenecks across the trading architecture, applying advanced low-latency and high-throughput Java techniques
  • Contribute significantly to the architectural roadmap for core platform services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
  • Own and solve highly complex, ambiguous technical challenges, breaking them down into manageable solutions
  • Implement robust monitoring and incident response strategies, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure continuous system reliability
  • Partner closely with Stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust, performant technical designs
  • Champion and implement best practices in software engineering, including secure coding, automated testing, and CI/CD
What We Look For In You
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or a strong STEM education background)
  • 7+ years of Java experience building high-performance, low-latency systems; deep expertise in JVM internals, memory management, and advanced concurrency
  • Proven design and implementation skills for distributed systems and strong proficiency with message-oriented middleware
  • Expertise in relational/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB), including data modeling and performance tuning
  • Proficiency in Linux performance tuning, understanding of kernel-level optimizations for low-latency applications, and strong grasp of CI/CD, automated testing, and monitoring
Nice to Haves
  • PhD or Master's degree in a highly quantitative field
  • Prior experience working on high-frequency trading (HFT) platforms, market-making systems, or algorithmic trading infrastructure
  • In-depth knowledge of FIX Protocol and other relevant industry standards
  • Experience with hardware-level optimizations or specialized networking for ultra-low latency
  • Contributions to open-source projects relevant to high-performance Java or financial technology, or familiarity with cloud-native development best practices

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