Senior Back-End Engineer, Trading Platform

About the Role

As a Senior Back-End Engineer at Blockchain.com, you will be responsible for building low latency, scalable trading services using Rust. You will work in a fast-paced environment, enhancing order management systems and ensuring high-quality software delivery in the cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem.

What You Will Do

• Build low latency, scalable and highly performant trading services in Rust including Order Management System (OMS), exchange gateways, risk management systems, etc.
• Enhance and maintain OMS functionality, ensuring efficient order execution, routing, and management in a high-frequency trading environment.
• Be a part of a fast-paced dedicated engineering team committed to constantly improving and iterating on cutting edge systems.
• Be at the forefront of the cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem building out a new set of financial services, systems and architecture.
• Gain exposure to an array of low latency, high throughput techniques and algorithms.
• Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do, employing advanced encryption schemes to secure user and company data.
• Work closely with the other tech teams to seamlessly deliver the highest quality products and improve performance across the board.

What You Will Need

• You possess an innate curiosity, and thrive on learning new technologies.
• Extensive experience in C++ and/or Rust.
• Experience with Python and SQL.
• Experience in one or more of the following programming areas: Multithreading, Network programming, including multicast, Performance benchmarking and tuning.
• Extreme interest in delivering high quality software, with testing embedded in the development process.
• Experience in trading systems architecture, familiarity with OMS, exchange gateway connectivity, market data ingestion and processing.
• Basic understanding of algorithms, data structures, databases and distributed systems is a must.

Compensation & Perks

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company.
• Role based in our London office, with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week.
• Work from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.
• ClassPass.
• Budgets for learning & professional development.
• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it.
• Apple equipment.
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field.
• Flexible work culture.

Diversity and Inclusion

Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.