[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Trading Technology (Query Stack) @BitMEX

Role Description

The Trading and Market Data team is responsible for producing, and providing access, to the vast amount of BitMEX trading-related data and market data. This is via APIs for both internal and external clients. BitMEX’s clients make thousands of queries per second to a rich data set of both public and private trading data, including real time position, order book information and time-series based execution and order data.

The team provides a flexible and performant API for clients to efficiently access this data. The team also builds and maintains the firm’s Market Data infrastructure, including:

• Market data feed handlers
• Data capture and storage
• Analytics for various cryptocurrency exchanges
• Calculating the realtime index prices used to value client positions

Responsibilities include:

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Nice to have:

• 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
• Beyond Border Remote Working policy, where you get to work away from your home country
• Option to choose to be paid in fiat or cryptocurrency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom