Senior Back-End Engineer, Trading Platform
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As a Senior Back-End Engineer on the Institutional team at Blockchain.com, you'll build low-latency, scalable trading services for one of the world's most trusted cryptocurrency platforms. You join a high-performance culture focused on delivering cutting-edge systems that power financial services across the global crypto ecosystem.
What you'll do
- Build low-latency, scalable and highly performant trading services in Rust, including Order Management Systems (OMS), exchange gateways, and risk management systems
- Enhance and maintain OMS functionality to ensure efficient order execution, routing, and management in a high-frequency trading environment
- Work at the forefront of the cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem, building new financial services, systems and architecture
- Gain exposure to low-latency, high-throughput techniques and algorithms
- Embed security throughout your work, employing advanced encryption schemes to protect user and company data
- Collaborate with other tech teams to deliver high-quality products and improve performance across platforms
What you bring
- Extensive experience in C++ and/or Rust
- Experience with Python and SQL
- Hands-on experience in multithreading, network programming (including multicast), and performance benchmarking and tuning
- Experience with trading systems architecture, including Order Management Systems (OMS), exchange gateway connectivity, market data ingestion and processing, and high-throughput, low-latency systems
- A fundamental understanding of algorithms, data structures, databases and distributed systems
- Expertise in testing practices embedded throughout the development process, from unit testing through integration, performance, and failure recovery testing
- A pragmatic approach to developing clean solutions to complex problems
- Innate curiosity and a drive to learn new technologies
What we offer
- Full-time salary based on experience plus meaningful equity in the company
- Hybrid work model from Blockchain.com's Singapore office and home
- Work from Anywhere Policy allowing remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year
- ClassPass membership
- Budgets for learning and professional development
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Apple equipment
- Flexible work culture
About Blockchain.com
Blockchain.com is the world's leading software platform for digital assets, powering over 75 million wallets since its founding in 2011. Trusted by over 90 million wallet holders and 40 million verified users, it has facilitated more than $1 trillion in crypto transactions, building an open, accessible and fair financial future.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Blockchain.com has 46 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 18 in Legal & Compliance, 8 in Engineering and 6 in Marketing. 70% are fully remote, most of the rest in the US and the UK. 13 were posted in the last 7 days.
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