# Senior Software Engineer - Product

**Company:** [Electronx](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/electronx)
**Location:** New York, NY, Chicago, IL
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, TypeScript, React, Postgres, MySQL, Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, AWS, Websocket, Fix Protocol
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> Build core trading infrastructure including matching engine, market data systems, customer trading interface, APIs, surveillance tools, and data pipelines for a regulated electricity derivatives exchange. Requires 5+ years full-stack experience with Python/Go, TypeScript/React, distributed systems, and regulatory compliance focus.

## Job Description

## 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

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