I am partnered with a crypto hedge fund based in San Francisco focused on algorithmic market making and long-short strategies. We are looking for a low latency systems engineer to help develop our trading platform while offering the opportunity to learn about cryptocurrency financial market technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Help with the design, development and implementation of our trading platform (OMS, EMS, PMS, etc.)
- Develop, maintain, and optimize integrations and connectors to exchanges and other third parties
- Support the internal research iterations and their migration to production
- Organize and maintain internal and external support documents as well as educational material
Required Qualification:
- At least two years of working experience
- Experience in systems design and architecture with a specialization in low latency optimizations
- Experience in diagnosing of bottlenecks and root causes
- Strong coding skills in Python
- Comfort navigating cloud technology and distributed systems
- Ability to understand complex metrics and analytics
- Ability to stay calm under pressure
- Willingness to tackle a complex system with a steep learning curve
- Strong communication skills
- Strong interest in cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets
Preferred Qualification:
- BS / MS / PhD degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or Financial Engineering
- Experience in Java / Scala / C++
- Experience with Django, ZeroMQ, and microservices architectures
- Experience with lockless multithreading and kernel bypass designs
- Experience with crypto/blockchain integrations
- Experience with time series databases and real-time applications