Software Engineer, Trading Platform (New York City Metropolitan Area)

This firm is one of the few that is defining a new category: Prediction Markets! They allow people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset.

They believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.

They are building a next-generation financial ecosystem (think NYSE or CME from scratch). You will work on various platforms, including core exchange, clearinghouse, API infrastructure, connectivity to brokers and market makers, and others. They are a small team, which means your responsibilities scale very rapidly, and your contributions are clear and visible, not marginal.

What You’ll Do

• Order matching and trade execution algorithms and data structures
• High-performance data feeds and trading APIs for clients
• High guarantee and availability clearing systems, including margining, collateral management, and banking integrations
• Lead integrations with external market makers, brokers, and hedge funds
• Stress test large-scale critical systems to ensure their robustness and maintainability
• Optimize database access patterns and internal algorithms to improve the performance of our different services
• Design new market structures (e.g., non-binary markets, scalars, futures, etc.)
• Be close to the customer (define features, ship products, iterate)! Even the backend can choose to be close to customers depending on the project
• Ship fast and with high quality
• Make decisions: we give a lot of flexibility, which also means no spoon-feeding

Required

What You Bring

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building financial systems, FIX API, clearing infrastructure, broker connectivity, etc.
• Proven experience building large-scale systems

They have minimal hierarchy and broad variance in experience levels within each title; if your compensation expectations exceed this range, we encourage you to reach out, we’re always happy to discuss.