Full Stack Engineer – Real-Time Options Trading

Westbury Partners; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Westbury Partners in Sydney is seeking a skilled Full Stack Engineer to contribute to real-time options trading platforms. You will work across modern frontends and backends to deliver robust, low-latency software used by traders to price, manage, and execute strategies.

You will collaborate with traders and quantitative researchers, design APIs and event-driven services, and push performance, scalability, and usability of mission-critical applications.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex applications.
• Proficient in TypeScript and React.
• Experience designing scalable backend services using C++ or Python.
• Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong API design, asynchronous and event-driven architectures.
• Experience building real-time, high-performance applications.
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance, real-time options pricing and trading workflows.
• Develop full-stack solutions across modern frontends, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Create intuitive interfaces for real-time trading decisions.
• Design scalable services for pricing, data, workflow orchestration, and trading operations.
• Prototype ideas and turn concepts into production-ready systems.
• Collaborate with traders, researchers, sales and business leaders.
• Refine applications for performance, scalability, and usability.

Skills

3+ years experience

Full-stack development

TypeScript & React

C++ or Python

Distributed systems

API design

Event-driven architecture

Real-time applications

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Job description

Full Stack Engineer – Real-Time Options Trading

Westbury Partners – Sydney NSW

Full time

3d ago , from E-Financial Careers Australia

Build high-performance trading applications that combine intuitive user experiences, scalable backend systems, and real-time data to help traders price, manage, execute, and optimize options strategies.

What You'll Do:

• Build the next generation of high-touch options pricing and trading workflow applications.
• Develop full-stack solutions spanning modern frontends, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Create intuitive, high-performance interfaces for real-time trading decisions.
• Design scalable services supporting pricing, market data, workflow orchestration, and trading operations.
• Prototype innovative ideas rapidly and transform successful concepts into production-ready systems.
• Improve the performance, scalability, stability, and usability of mission-critical applications.
• Translate complex financial concepts into intuitive and effective software solutions.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Partnering directly with traders, quantitative researchers, sales teams, and business leaders.
• Designing workflows that improve pricing, execution, research, and risk management.
• Building applications capable of supporting new markets and previously unsupported option instruments.
• Developing real-time systems for researching, monitoring, pricing, and executing trades.
• Designing APIs and asynchronous, event-driven services.
• Building and maintaining distributed and service-oriented architectures.
• Analyzing complex technical and business challenges and developing elegant solutions.
• Collaborating across engineering, quantitative research, and trading teams.
• Continuously refining applications based on performance, scalability, and user feedback.

Why Join Us:

• Work directly at the intersection ofsoftware engineering, options trading, and quantitative research .
• Build technology that traders rely on for real-time decision-making.
• Solve challenging problems involving distributed systems, high-performance applications, and financial markets.
• Gain exposure to multiple global markets and sophisticated options trading workflows.
• Shape new trading capabilities while helping expand technology into new markets.
• Combine technical depth with meaningful interaction with traders and business stakeholders.
• See your ideas evolve rapidly from prototypes into mission-critical production systems.

About You:

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex applications.
• Strong full-stack development experience across modern frontend and backend technologies.
• Proficiency withTypeScript and React .
• Experience designing scalable backend services usingC++ or Python .
• Experience developing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of API design, asynchronous systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience building real-time, high-performance applications.
• Passion for intuitive user experiences, interaction design, and rapid prototyping.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable tackling open-ended and technically complex challenges.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

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