Trading Analytics Developer, Quantitative Trading
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As a Trading Analytics Developer at Crypto.com, you'll join the Quant Trading team to advance data and AI infrastructure. This role combines quantitative development with cutting-edge AI platform engineering, focusing on building robust, scalable systems that serve both data analytics and artificial intelligence workloads. You'll bridge the gap between high-performance trading systems and modern AI capabilities, ensuring reliability, performance, and actionable insights across both domains.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate high throughput batch and streaming data pipelines using Kafka, Flink, and ETL technologies
- Design and build a unified analytics engine for processing large-scale data using Apache Spark and related tools
- Develop and optimize analytical data models for time-series, financial metrics, and trading activity
- Implement and manage analytical databases such as ClickHouse, MongoDB, BigQuery, or Snowflake with cost-aware architecture
- Build idempotent data pipelines with robust backfill and reconciliation capabilities
- Create comprehensive monitoring for data quality, freshness, and pipeline reliability
- Design, build, and operate internal AI platforms serving multiple trading teams
- Build reusable AI tooling including standardized RAG pipelines, prompt management, and self-service workflows
- Create and maintain agent systems using modern frameworks such as LangGraph, A2A, and MCP with focus on controllability and auditability
What you bring
- 5+ years production experience with both Python and Java in high-performance environments
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: system design, data structures, algorithms, data integrity, accuracy and performance optimization
- Expertise in Linux, Github, and modern CI/CD practices
- Proven experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes orchestration
- Comfort working with large-scale, complex datasets in financial and trading contexts
- Advanced SQL with window functions and query optimization, real-time data synchronization, database design and infrastructure support
- Experience with data workflow and messaging orchestration tools such as Airflow, Jenkins, or AMPS
- Metric design and implementation for trading analytics including PnL, risk, balance and trade reconciliation, backfill and performance tuning
- Time-series data visualization with Grafana, TradingView, web-based interactive dashboards and BI tools
- Kafka, Flink, and event processing in production environments
- Retrieval system evaluation methodologies and quality frameworks
- RAG pipeline architecture and optimization techniques
- LLMOps practices including model lifecycle and prompt management
- Experience with AI agent frameworks in production settings such as A2A and MCP
Nice to have
- Experience in trading systems, quantitative finance, or financial technology
- Understanding of market data and data subscription using REST API and Web Socket
- Knowledge of cryptocurrency markets, DeFi and related technologies
- Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to perform under pressure
- Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration
- Proactive approach to system reliability and performance optimization
- Continuous learning mindset in the rapidly evolving AI and ML landscape
- Balance of practical engineering rigor with innovative solution development
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Attractive annual leave entitlement including birthday and work anniversary
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance
- Flexible work hours and hybrid work setup
- Internal mobility program offering diverse career alternatives
About Crypto.com
Founded in 2016, Crypto.com serves more than 150 million customers and is the world's fastest growing global cryptocurrency platform. Built on a foundation of security, privacy, and compliance, Crypto.com is committed to accelerating the adoption of cryptocurrency through innovation and empowering the next generation of builders, creators, and entrepreneurs.
