Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join BitMEX's Trading and Market Data team as a senior engineer to design, develop, and maintain fault-tolerant, containerized distributed systems for exchange data. You will provide services to internal and external clients, evaluate new technologies, collaborate with peers, and mentor junior engineers. This role requires 10+ years of Java development experience in a distributed environment, familiarity with various technologies, and strong computer science fundamentals. BitMEX offers a flexible remote work arrangement with paid holidays and leave, team-building events, and the option of fiat or crypto currency payment.

Requirements

• Have a Computer Science/Engineering degree
• 10+ years of writing Java components in a distributed fault tolerant environment. Integration with data sources, such as relational databases and messaging middleware
• Comfortable with TDD/BDD, with a good appreciation of clean coding principles
• Spring
• Rest services, to extract/insert data from databases
• Strong engineering skill set with firm grasp of fundamental Computer Science principles
• Work in a Linux/containerised environment and have experience tuning it
• Collaborate across time zones/team boundaries to engineer best possible outcome
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities within a fast moving industry and startup culture

Responsibilities

• Design, development, maintenance and support of fault-tolerant, containerised distributed systems of microservices, for the writing and reading of exchange data
• Provide services to both internal and external clients, such as new products, support tooling, analysis tooling
• Evaluation of new technologies
• Collaboration with peers, internal and external users on technical design and direction
• Act as a senior technical resource to junior engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with algorithmic trading
• Exposure to Data Warehousing solution, specifically AWS/RDS
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• Experience in the finance industry
• An interest in the crypto trading space

Benefits

• Work from home to help you find the perfect balance between work, family and personal life
• Paid holidays and leave so you won’t miss out any important events
• Team building & offsite events to bring our global team closer
• Don’t forget the advantage of our Beyond Border Remote Working policy, where you get to work away from your home country
• Option to choose to be paid in fiat or crypto currency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom