Senior Trading Technology Engineer LowLatency
Listed on 2026-06-02
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Backend Developer
About BitMEX:
BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with “no coin lost, ever!”. The platform provides low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability for over 100 derivatives contracts, 16 pairs for spot trading, and easy conversion between 30+ cryptocurrencies.
The Trading Engine sits at the core of the BitMEX platform and handles all brokerage and trading aspects. The Trading Engine team is responsible for order management, risk management, position keeping, PNL calculations, market data distribution, order matching, and settlement. We are building a best-in-class engineering team to help us scale the BitMEX trading platform to millions of users and millions of transactions per second, and grow an innovative set of new products.
Key Responsibilities- Ownership in the design, development and delivery of trading system components
- New feature implementation, bug fixing, and performance tuning
- Partner with Financial Products and quantitative researchers on product delivery
- Mentor team members and drive firm initiatives
- 8+ years programming experience writing high-performance Java applications
- Experience in developing a low latency trading system
- Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or similar STEM discipline
- Experience in a related industry, such as within a Hedge Fund, Investment Bank, or an Exchange developing financial trading applications
- Understanding of the modern software development fundamentals and testing practices inclusive of TDD and BDD
- Understanding of design patterns and object-oriented programming such as SOLID, with in-depth understanding of algorithms and their complexities
- Understanding of the Java Memory Model and concurrency in practice
- Demonstrable analytical and problem‑solving skills, with an ability to break larger problems down and turn complex problems into simpler abstractions
- Genuine passion for software development, and a keen lifetime learner who puts quality over quantity
- Experience in development of execution algorithms and risk management systems
- Finance knowledge in FX/Crypto spot and derivatives markets
- Basic understanding of mathematics
- Working knowledge of the KDB/q language
- Working knowledge of containerisation using Docker/Kubernetes
- Experience with REST/WS, FIX or any other financial protocols
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