Staff Back-End Engineer

Summary

Join Blockchain as a Staff Back-End Engineer and take a leadership role in shaping our cryptocurrency trading platform's technology. Collaborate with trading teams and quantitative analysts to design and implement real-time trading systems. You will optimize low-latency systems in Rust, lead the implementation of trading algorithms, and promote best practices in software engineering. The role requires extensive experience in Rust/C++, leadership skills, and a strong background in trading. Based in London, this international team offers a hybrid work model and various benefits.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in Rust and/or C++, building high-performance, low-latency systems in complex environments such as cryptocurrency trading or financial services
• Leadership experience with a proven track record of leading by example, advocating for technical excellence, and mentoring engineers to help them grow their skills
• Strong background in trading (ideally cryptocurrency trading),with experience in market-making, arbitrage strategies, and order execution in fast-moving markets
• Proven experience iterating quickly on algorithmic strategies, adapting to market dynamics and optimizing performance in real-time
• You possess an innate curiosity, and thrive on learning new technologies
• Proficiency in Python for backtesting, scripting, and analysis, along with SQL for managing large-scale data systems
• Strong focus on performance optimization, identifying bottlenecks, and improving throughput in high-frequency, low-latency real-time systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically about complex challenges and drive technical solutions forward
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and deploying scalable, high-performance trading systems in cloud environments (AWS)

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize low-latency trading systems in Rust that power algorithmic trading strategies and support real-time execution in the volatile crypto market
• Lead the design and implementation of trading algorithms, optimizing liquidity management, price discovery, and slippage reduction in dynamic market conditions
• Promote best practices in software engineering, advocating for clean, scalable, and maintainable code to ensure that systems are built with both immediate performance and long-term sustainability in mind
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, to quickly adapt the trading platform to new data, market conditions, and business needs
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear alignment between engineering, business teams (trading, quants), and leadership, especially when discussing complex technical solutions or business goals
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability of trading systems while maintaining a sharp focus on performance and testing
• Drive technical decision-making and contribute to high-level architecture discussions, ensuring that all solutions align with the company’s goals for scalability, performance, and security
• Be a technical advocate for excellence, leading efforts to improve development processes, code quality, and overall system performance through best practices and knowledge sharing
• Prioritize rapid iteration of trading algorithms to ensure maximum profitability, minimal risk, and fast execution, adapting quickly to volatile market conditions

Benefits

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• Hybrid model working from home & our office in Central London (SoHo)
• Work from Anywhere Policy - up to 20 days to work remotely
• ClassPass
• Budgets for learning & professional development
• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
• Apple equipment
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field
• Flexible work culture