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About the role
What You’ll DO
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Lead the design and delivery of complex systems and multi-service projects in our trading platform.
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Take system-level ownership of correctness, reliability, and operability in production.
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Anticipate and mitigate architectural, operational, and product risks before they result in incidents or user impact.
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Act as a technical co-lead with Product, Risk, Operations, and other stakeholders to drive clarity, alignment, and execution.
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Provide high-quality code reviews that surface risks, clarify assumptions, and raise engineering standards.
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Coach and mentor engineers through design discussions, feedback, and day-to-day collaboration.
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Drive technical leverage by introducing abstractions, patterns, or platforms that structurally improve correctness, reliability, and long-term velocity.
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Participate actively in incident response and ensure durable improvements through root-cause analysis and follow-up work.
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Communicate complex technical decisions clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
What We’re Looking FOR
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We’re looking for engineers who consistently demonstrate strong performance across our core competencies, and who are ready to operate with broader scope and higher leverage.
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In particular, you should have:
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Proven ability to reason about and evolve complex, stateful systems safely.
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Strong engineering judgment and a track record of making thoughtful trade-offs in ambiguous situations.
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Deep ownership of production systems, including incident response and post-incident improvement.
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A clear bias toward correctness, reliability, and defensive system design.
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The ability to raise the quality and effectiveness of others through coaching, reviews, and example.
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Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to push back thoughtfully and align stakeholders around shared outcomes.
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Clear, precise communication, especially when discussing risks, trade-offs, and complex system behavior.
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Nice to Have
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Deep experience with trading systems, exchanges, or other financial infrastructure.
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Experience designing systems with adversarial users or strong economic incentives.
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Expertise in Go (Golang), distributed systems, performance engineering, or event-driven architectures.
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Prior experience driving architectural or platform-level improvements in a production environment.
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THIS ROLE IS NOT A FIT IF
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You prefer focusing primarily on individually scoped tasks or features.
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You are uncomfortable owning system-level outcomes or production behavior.
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You avoid cross-functional responsibility or difficult alignment conversations.
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You optimize for short-term delivery over long-term correctness, reliability, and maintainability.
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You are not interested in mentoring, coaching, or raising the technical bar for others.
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We care deeply about judgment, ownership, and impact, especially in complex and high-stakes systems. Strong candidates for this role demonstrate not only technical depth, but the ability to make the team and the system meaningfully better over time.