Senior Software Engineer - Post-Trade Platform

As a Senior Software Engineer at Flow Traders, you own end-to-end critical post-trade domains such as reconciliation, settlement, booking, and reporting. You help shape the platform architecture while building reliable, automated, and data-driven services across Equities, ETFs, Fixed Income, and Crypto.

What you'll do

• Own and develop critical post-trade domains such as reconciliation, settlement, booking, and reporting
• Work closely with Trading, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Data teams to understand workflows and requirements
• Design and build scalable backend services and data pipelines
• Improve automation, data quality, resilience, and operational efficiency
• Contribute to the target architecture and technical roadmap of the post-trade platform
• Ensure observability, reliability, and data correctness across systems

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java or C++, with exposure to Python
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and event-driven architectures
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka
• Hands-on experience building data-intensive systems, ETL pipelines, and analytical data solutions
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills
• Proven ability to own complex technical domains from design through production support
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with post-trade workflows, including reconciliation, settlement, booking, or regulatory reporting
• Background in financial services, proprietary trading, or market making
• Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, Spark, Flink, or similar technologies
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry

What we offer

• Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
• In-house bar and lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
• Company boat
• In-house gym and sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer
• Bi-weekly massages
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event
• Global rotations across offices worldwide
• Competitive salary and annual discretionary profit share

About Flow Traders

Flow Traders is building the next generation of its post-trade platform covering trade capture, reconciliation, settlement, booking, reporting, and operational workflows across Equities, ETFs, Fixed Income, and Crypto. The company maintains a collaborative, non-hierarchical culture with thorough onboarding, latest technology, and comprehensive benefits.