Senior Java Developer - Trading - Bitcoin Devs Company

Overview

The Senior Java Developer - Trading role is pivotal within our New York-based team, facilitating high-impact trading applications that drive our business forward. As part of a dynamic and collaborative environment, you will work closely with traders, architects, and other stakeholders to design, develop, and deploy high-performance applications tailored to trading needs. This remote position allows for flexibility and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and methodologies in a fast-paced sector. Your expertise in Java and related frameworks will be essential in ensuring that our trading solutions are reliable, efficient, and scalable. You will play a critical role in enhancing system performance, introducing innovative solutions, and contributing to the successful execution of our trading strategies. This position is ideal for someone passionate about finance and technology, looking to make a tangible impact in the trading domain.

Key Responsibilities

Use engineering principles to identify and measure risk and to implement quantitative and technical risk management solutions in software.

Understand business needs, facilitate and develop process workflows, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation of our real time exchange.

Develop scalable architecture for the future state of our exchange and contribute towards improving the trading infrastructure.

Write robust code and APIs to support the company’s vital business.

Keep everyone informed about the health and viability of the platform by reporting known issues and status of ongoing investigations.

Identify and advocate for changes vital to the stability and supportability of the system.

Mentor and advise teammates to ensure new features are efficient, highly available, and fault tolerant.

Provide continuity and stability to the production environment.

Provide quick response to production issues to help eliminate down time thereby ensuring high availability and performance of our trading platform.

Coordinate, prioritize and plan the changes to our trading software thereby ensuring smooth exchange migrations, quick time to market for new features and software.

Minimum Qualifications:

8+ years Java/C++ or functional programming language experience in an exchange/trading systems environment.

Experience with unit testing frameworks and continuous integration tools.

8+ years working with order handling or matching engines.

8+ years working with FIX or other market data/order protocols.

Experience in building real time Linux systems.

Solid understanding of IP multicast and TCP protocols.

Preferred Qualifications:

Low latency/lock-free development and design.

Multithreading and concurrency experience.

Binary or custom protocols (e.g. ITCH/OUCH).

Linux kernel tuning and optimization.

Scala experience.