Senior Backend Engineer (Matching Engine) - Exchange

Full Job Description

Pintu is offering an opportunity for a full-time Software Engineer to join a team responsible for Exchange’s Matching Engine’s infrastructure and landscape. The applicant will gain experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering, to design, coding, unit testing, debugging, and supporting in production.

This position requires outstanding technical proficiency, professionalism, solid communication, exceptional problem-solving skills as well as an eager attitude.

The successful candidate will play a key role in building, operating, and evolving an error-free, low-latency, high capacity and throughput, next-gen Crypto Exchange, its matching engines or back-end software systems that serve millions of customers (retail or institutional investors, B2B2C clients, market makers). The ideal candidate should be knowledgeable in the trading technologies domain, multi-threading and multi-host scaling applications development, orchestration engines, high-performance programming languages, and associated debuggers/profilers.

Strong written and oral communication is a must as the applicant will be frequently interacting with the business stakeholders and product teams to achieve Pintu strategic business goals

Essential Functions / Responsibilities

• Analyze Business/Product requirements and propose effective and efficient technical solutions in delivering changes and innovations to the Pintu matching engine(s) landscape within expected parameters of cost, time, and quality
• Work with a project focus group (product engineering, product management, architecture, and CTO) to compile a work breakdown structure of tasks for given deliverables and provide realistic estimates for completion or project assignments
• Develop and unit test all functional modules created or modified according to software development best practices
• Develop and maintain the respective operational benchmarking and monitoring models for all landscape modules related to the Pintu Pro Matching Engine infrastructure
• Collaborate with other Developers, SREs, and QA Engineers to execute full-cycle integration, and functional and regression testing. Own and resolve all priority defects identified within the solution codebase efficiently and in a timely fashion
• Promote software changes across all environments, safely and responsibly, through Development, Staging environments to deploying updates to the Production environment in a zero-downtime manner
• Provide on-call Level 2 technical support during business and, occasionally, off hours depending on rotation, act as an escalation point for the Level 1 support in case of severe issues
• Participate in team exercises to identify and implement areas for continuous improvement, and be proactive in bringing your ideas across
• Educate and mentor your engineering colleagues in the areas of your own expertise and domain knowledge, and be open-minded and approachable

Experience Required

• A minimum of 7 years of experience working in the financial trading domain (exchanges, proprietary trading firms, market makers, brokers, etc.) At least 3 years working in the crypto industry. Experience in developing high-load and high-throughput systems and order-matching engines.
• Solid understanding of the matching engine operating principles and various order type models (Market, Limit, GTC, FOK, OCO, Take-Profit, Stop-Loss, etc)
• Solid understanding of the general Exchange microstructure model, including account management, margin, and liquidation engines management, and their integration into Exchange’s workflow and business logic
• Experience in building efficient and robust application-level networking messaging protocols for internal Exchange communication
• Experience working in small focus teams of high-skilled developers.
• The ideal candidate should also have experience building and running/operating a full-blown matching engine solution in production

Necessary Skills

• Solid knowledge of the Linux operating system, its ABI and system calls level, SMP, NUMA, and other threading models
• Solid hands-on experience in Go
• Hand-on experience with the Continuous Integration principles (unit testing, pull requests, GitHub, or any specific continuous integration engine like GitLab/Jenkins/etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience in building and operating Matching Engine monitoring systems, which includes
  • operational monitoring
  • performance monitoring
• Understanding or messaging protocol engines and models (gRPC, Protobuf, Thrift, Avro, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP and UDP networking protocols.
• Knowledge HTTP/HTTP, QUIC and web sockets is a plus
• Strong knowledge of code analysis and profiling techniques and tools (for example Coverity, Valgrind, etc.)
• Personal: self-sufficient with good hard and soft skills, committed and responsible, able to perform well under pressure

Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Experience in C++ and/or Rust programming languages
• Experience working with Application Containers and Container Orchestrators (example: Kubernetes or Nomad)
• Experience working under Continuous Delivery and Zero-Downtime models (for example blue-green deployments, canary deployments, etc.)
• Solid understanding or, better, working experience of the Disruptor pattern or any other fast host-level IPC technique
• Experience working with message broker technologies (for example RocketMQ, Kafka, etc.)
• Knowledge of Google Cloud and AWS Cloud Infrastructure and components (products)
• Good understanding or experience in Scrum methodology
• Understanding various trading models, types of trading, and rationale behind trading and market making
  • a solid plus goes to candidates that are doing any of the crypto trading (or any other asset classes) themselves on a private basis