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Backend Software Engineer - Trading Infrastructure

SFOXPosted 3/5/2025

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Backend Software Engineer - Trading Infrastructure

SFOX

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop scalable trading infrastructure that processes millions of orders daily. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience designing and implementing trading systems using Golang, C#, or Java. They will work on features increasing speed and functionality, collaborate with the CTO office, and grow into an expert in understanding our entire trading system. This role offers a remote-first culture, unlimited PTO, paid holidays, health insurance, and flexible spending accounts. The candidate should have 8-10 years of hands-on software engineering experience and a passion for cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies.

Job Description

About the Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Trading Infrastructure team, you will help us develop scalable infrastructure that processes millions of orders each day while providing cutting edge services to high-end financial customers. An ideal candidate is someone with hands-on experience designing and implementing trading systems in the traditional finance or crypto trading industry using technologies like Golang, C#, or Java.

What You’ll Do

  • Work on features to increase the speed and functionality of our trading infrastructure: whether it's new trading algorithms, exchange integrations, performance improvements, or new features for the platform. 

  • Play an active role in helping our CTO office influence system architecture and roadmap.

  • Collaborate with our Product Management team to form a plan of attack for a new features, optimize performance of services and write tests

  • Grow to become an expert in understanding our entire trading systems and all associated services

  • Use deductive reasoning to solve complex problems that potentially exist beyond the scope of your local environment.

About You

  • Proven expertise in designing and implementing trading systems, whether in traditional finance or in the cryptocurrency ecosystem

  • Deep knowledge of Order types and routing, exchange management and systems performance is required.

  • Experience building high performance, low latency distributed trading systems

  • 8-10 years of hands on software engineering - Golang expertise is desirable, but equivalent frameworks such as C# and Java are applicable

  • Self-starter, capable of handling projects from the idea phase all the way into customers' hands and beyond.

  • You take pride in code quality and test infrastructure while prioritizing execution speed, security, and the end-user experience over 'cool tech.'

Not Required, but Nice to Have

  • You have a passion for cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies.

  • Data manipulation - SQL and Snowflake is a plus

Why You'll Want to Work Here

  • Remote-first culture - work from where you are

  • Unlimited PTO - take time off when you need it

  • Paid holidays and company-wide wellness days off

  • Health/dental/vision/life insurance and flexible spending accounts available for you and your family

  • Ability to help shape the future of sFOX and the cryptocurrency market