Senior Software Engineer - Product

Responsibilities

Build Core Exchange Infrastructure

• Design and implement our trading engine, order matching system, and market data distribution platform
• Develop, ship, and iterate our customer-facing trading interface
• Build APIs and integrations for market participants, clearinghouses, and data vendors
• Develop real-time market surveillance and monitoring systems
• Create admin tools and internal dashboards for operations and compliance teams
• Build scalable data pipelines for market data, trade reporting, and analytics

Own Technical Architecture

• Design systems that balance performance, reliability, and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to evolving team standards for engineering best practices, code quality, and development workflows
• Implement security controls and compliance-focused engineering practices

Raise the Engineering Bar

• Champion and evolve our engineering principles as the team grows
• Contribute to strong documentation and knowledge-sharing across the team
• Mentor teammates and help new hires ramp up
• Reinforce a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement

Collaborate Cross-Functionally

• Collaborate with the Product and Strategy and Design teams to translate market needs into technical solutions
• Work with compliance and legal teams to ensure systems meet CFTC regulatory requirements
• Coordinate with infrastructure and security teams on deployment and monitoring
• Engage directly with early customers and trading firms to understand their needs

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, with a proven ability to build systems from scratch
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one backend language; Python and/or Go preferred
• Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript and React
• Experience designing, building, and deploying APIs, services, and user-facing applications
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and scalability patterns
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and data modeling
• Experience with version control (Git), CI/CD, and modern development tooling
• Working knowledge of software security best practices
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code

Preferred Experience

• Financial services or trading systems experience — trading platforms, market data, order routing, or exchange technology
• High-performance systems experience — low-latency or high-throughput systems (matching engines, pricing systems, real-time data processing)
• Regulated environments — fintech, healthcare, or other compliance-heavy industries
• Early-stage startup experience as one of the first 10 engineers helping scale a company
• Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with FIX protocol or other trading protocols
• Understanding of derivatives, futures, or commodities markets
• Experience with real-time systems and WebSocket / streaming technologies
• DevOps experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• Background in data engineering or analytics infrastructure