Senior Software Engineer - Product

Who are we?

Electron

X™ is the first U.S.

-regulated, direct access electricity derivatives market, offering financial products to address volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. With offices in Chicago and New York City, Electron

X is building the missing financial infrastructure and risk management tools necessary to smooth the path for U.S. energy production, diversification and grid expansion in a time of rapidly increasing power demand.

Electron

X is a venture capital-backed startup supported by premier VC partners including Innovation Endeavors, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures LLC, DCVC, Amplo, Box Group and Lightning Capital.

As a fast-growing company in the highly competitive, quantitative capital markets industry, Electron

X values candidates who are resourceful, curious and adaptable to change. Our cultural focus on innovation requires collaborative and entrepreneurial teammates with the intellectual grit necessary for near- and long-term success.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help build the foundation of our exchange. You’ll ship the core trading infrastructure our market runs on: the matching engine, market data distribution, our customer-facing trading interface, APIs for market participants and clearinghouses, real-time surveillance and monitoring, and the data pipelines behind trade reporting and analytics. You’ll own architectural decisions that balance performance, reliability, and CFTC regulatory requirements, and weave security and compliance into how we build.

Beyond the code, you’ll help evolve our engineering principles as the team grows, mentor new hires, and partner closely with Product, Design, Compliance, Infrastructure, and our earliest customers to turn real market needs into production systems.

Build Core Exchange Infrastructure

• Design and implement our trading engine, order matching system, and market data distribution platform
• Develop, ship, and iterate our customer-facing trading interface
• Build APIs and integrations for market participants, clearinghouses, and data vendors
• Develop real-time market surveillance and monitoring systems
• Create admin tools and internal dashboards for operations and compliance teams
• Build scalable data pipelines for market data, trade reporting, and analytics

Own Technical Architecture

• Design systems that balance performance, reliability, and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to evolving team standards for engineering best practices, code quality, and development workflows
• Implement security controls and compliance-focused engineering practices

Raise the Engineering Bar

• Champion and evolve our engineering principles as the team grows
• Contribute to strong documentation and knowledge-sharing across the team
• Mentor teammates and help new hires ramp up
• Reinforce a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement

Collaborate Cross-Functionally

• Collaborate with the Product and Strategy and Design teams to translate market needs into technical solutions
• Work with compliance and legal teams to ensure systems meet CFTC regulatory requirements
• Coordinate with infrastructure and security teams on deployment and monitoring
• Engage directly with early customers and trading firms to understand their needs

Technical Acumen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, with a proven ability to build systems from scratch
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one backend language;
  Python and/or Go preferred
• Expert-level proficiency in Type Script and React
• Experience designing, building, and deploying APIs, services, and user-facing applications
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and scalability patterns
• Experience with relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL) and data modeling
• Experience with version control (Git), CI/CD, and modern development tooling
• Working knowledge of software security best practices
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code

The Right Mindset

• Ownership mentality: You take full…