Trading System Architect

Role Overview

You will architect and lead the development of the firm's entire market-making technology stack-from exchange connectivity and low-latency quoting engines to risk systems and monitoring infrastructure. This is a foundational role: you will shape system design, development practices, and technology standards from day zero.

Key Responsibilities

. Design and build a production-grade market-making platform (pricing engine, quoting engine, risk engine, order-management, market-data handlers, monitoring)

. Lead low-latency engineering efforts within cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP, etc.)

. Build robust exchange connectors and handle idiosyncrasies of different crypto derivatives venues

. Develop simulation/testing frameworks for strategy validation and stress testing

. Implement automated failover, redundancy, and protection against exchange outages, API degradation, and rate-limit issues

. Collaborate closely with traders on strategy logic, pricing models, and operational workflows

. Establish engineering best practices, code quality standards, and deployment processes

Requirements

. 12+ years building market-making, HFT, or real-time trading system

. Strong expertise in C++/Rust for performance-critical code Python for research infrastructure

. Experience architecting trading systems end-to-end (market data, order routing, risk controls)

. Familiarity with cloud network performance and optimizing for low latency in a non-co-located environment

. Strong understanding of exchange APIs (WebSocket, REST, FIX variants)

. Prior experience collaborating directly with traders/quant teams