Director, Staff Engineer

About The Role

You will help drive the evolution of our cloud‑based, scalable architecture that powers our instrument management, settlements engine, and clearing systems. This includes expanding the platform’s features and ensuring its scalability.

• Help architect, implement, and maintain Rothera’s core instrument management, exchange, and clearing infrastructure, collaborating with other engineers on system design decisions.
• Provide technical leadership and hands‑on contributions to system design patterns, frameworks, protocols, and data architectures, ensuring they meet the requirements for performance, reliability, correctness, and maintainability.
• Design and implement significant features and components across a distributed micro‑services architecture for instrument management, settlement calculation, and clearing workflows.
• Handle massive data volumes efficiently, designing storage and retrieval patterns for instrument management, settlement calculation, and audit trails.
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical implementations and execute.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and respond to production incidents requiring deep technical troubleshooting.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent building high‑performance, low‑latency distributed systems.
• Expert‑level Java proficiency, including deep understanding of concurrency primitives, memory management, JVM internals, and performance optimization techniques.
• Proven experience building systems at scale that handle high message throughput (100k+ msgs/sec), low latency (sub‑millisecond p99), and high availability (99.99%+ uptime).
• Experience with financial markets technology and understanding of order books, matching algorithms, and derivatives products.

This position has a base salary of $175,000‑$200,000 per year.

Rothera Markets is dedicated to advancing the careers and personal wellbeing of our team members. We are continuously exploring ways to support our employees holistically, including a 401(k) plan with employer match, health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents, paid time off, and much more.

If you want a critical role in a path‑breaking company, you belong here.

Rothera values initiative from individuals of all backgrounds. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

This is a full‑time, in‑person hybrid position and is not available for visa sponsorship.