Senior Trading Systems Developer

**Who are we?**

FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever
- evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

**About The Role**:
We’re looking for a **Senior Trading Systems Developer** with strong experience in **Java and Rust** to architect and build our next-generation Order Management System (OMS) and electronic trading execution platform. This platform will be central to supporting complex electronic trading workflows, such as market making and internalizing flow spanning high
- and low-touch desks. You’ll be designing and developing scalable, low-latency components that are resilient under heavy load and tightly integrated with our execution stack and internal trading infrastructure.

**What You’ll Do**
- Design and implement a high-performance OMS for institutional trading workflow and EMS for electronic trading strategies and internalization engines.
- Lead the development of core order lifecycle components: order entry, modification, routing, risk checks, and state management.
- Build scalable services using Java and Rust, optimized for latency and throughput.
- Collaborate with strategy developers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to deliver flexible and extensible trading systems.
- Ensure system resilience, observability, and recovery in distributed, high-availability environments.
- Integrate with external market venues and internal trading strategies using WebSocket, REST, and FIX APIs.
- Drive code quality, testability, and production readiness through CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting best practices.

**What We’re Looking For**
- 5+ years of experience designing and building distributed trading systems.
- Expertise in **Java** and **Rust** for performance-critical systems. C++ a plus.
- Experience building or significantly contributing to an **Order Management System (OMS)** or **Execution Management System (EMS)**.
- Solid understanding of order state transitions, event-driven architecture, and low-latency system design.
- Experience with **WebSocket**, **REST**, **FIX**, and **OpenSSL** at the protocol level.
- Knowledge of market structure, trading workflows (high
- and low-touch), market making, and electronic trading best practices.
- Experience with high-performance messaging frameworks (e.g., **Aeron**, Chronicle, ZeroMQ, Kafka).
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and memory management.
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments, performance tuning, and system observability.

**Bonus Points**
- Prior experience in **crypto markets** or **electronic trading in traditional finance**.
- Experience integrating OMS with strategy containers, risk engines, or smart order routers.
- Knowledge of FIX protocol nuances and connectivity to major exchanges.
- Exposure to container orchestration, service mesh, or hybrid deployment architectures

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