Senior Software Engineer, Trading Technology (Query Stack)

Overview 

The Trading and Market Data team is responsible for producing, and providing access, to the vast amount of BitMEX trading-related data and market data. This is via APIs for both internal and external clients. BitMEX’s clients make thousands of queries per second to a rich data set of both public and private trading data, including real time position, order book information and time-series based execution and order data. 

The team provides a flexible and performant API for clients to efficiently access this data. The team also builds and maintains the firm’s Market Data infrastructure, including market data feed handlers, data capture and storage and analytics for various cryptocurrency exchanges, and also calculates the realtime index prices used to value client positions.

Responsibilities

• Design, development, maintenance and support of fault-tolerant, containerised distributed systems of microservices, for the writing and reading of exchange data
• Provide services to both internal and external clients, such as new products, support tooling, analysis tooling. This is a rapidly moving environment with a varied and expanding product line
• Evaluation of new technologies
• Collaboration with peers, internal and external users on technical design and direction
• Act as a senior technical resource to junior engineers

Qualifications

• Have a Computer Science/Engineering degree
• 10+ years of writing Java components in a distributed fault tolerant environment. Integration with data sources, such as relational databases and messaging middleware.
• Comfortable with TDD/BDD, with a good appreciation of clean coding principles
• Spring
• Rest services, to extract/insert data from databases
• Strong engineering skill set with firm grasp of fundamental Computer Science principles
• Work in a Linux/containerised environment and have experience tuning it
• Collaborate across time zones/team boundaries to engineer best possible outcome
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities within a fast moving industry and startup culture

Nice to have:

• Experience with algorithmic trading
• Exposure to Data Warehousing solution, specifically AWS/RDS
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• Experience in the finance industry
• An interest in the crypto trading space

Why BitMEX?

BitMEX is a place of intense work, fun, and diversity, all at the same time. We hire across different time zones, to support the growing demands and to bring in the best of the best talents across the world. 

We are looking for individuals who are determined, responsible and collaborative to join BitMEX as we continue to build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem. We value attention to detail, speed and simplicity. As a global business operating a 24/7 exchange, we seek out those who are adaptable and can work across markets in a diversity team.

We provide flexible arrangements to our remote contract talents with:

• Work from home to help you find the perfect balance between work, family and personal life
• Paid holidays and leave so you won’t miss out any important events
• Team building & offsite events to bring our global team closer
• Don’t forget the advantage of our Beyond Border Remote Working policy, where you get to work away from your home country
• Option to choose to be paid in fiat or crypto currency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom

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