Software Engineer

Block MB; England; On-site; GBP 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A VC-backed trading platform startup in London seeks a Platform Engineer to architect systems for a cutting-edge trading platform. This role involves designing scalable, low-latency systems and integrating with financial protocols. Candidates should have deep experience with distributed systems and proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Golang. The position offers a £150k base salary plus substantial equity, with a clear path towards leadership roles in the company.

Benefits

Substantial equity upside

Hands-on technical leadership

Qualifications

• Deep platform/distributed systems experience in high-stakes environments.
• Strong proficiency across Python/TypeScript/Golang (or equivalent stacks).
• Expertise in real-time systems, performance optimisation, and scalable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect the full platform stack handling trading engine, pricing models, and marketplace functionality.
• Build low-latency systems for real-time order matching and risk management.
• Design resilient infrastructure for massive compute trading volumes.

Skills

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Python

TypeScript

Golang

Real-time systems

Performance optimisation

Fault tolerance

Job description

Platform Engineer – Trading

London (3 days / week) | £150k + significant equity

The mission

Join an early-stage, VC-backed startup building a trading platform for GPU. Users hedge and speculate on spot prices like any financial market, backed by top-tier investors (including Anthropic backers) and founders from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford.

The role

This is a greenfield platform engineering role with complete ownership over the core architecture. You'll design and build the systems powering real-time trading from the ground up, working directly with exceptional founders on one of the most ambitious infrastructure challenges at the AI / compute-financial markets intersection. Clear path to VP / CTO leadership.

What you’ll do

• Architect the full platform stack (Python, TypeScript, Golang) handling trading engine, pricing models, hedging mechanisms and marketplace functionality.
• Build scalable, low-latency systems for real-time order matching, risk management and market data distribution.
• Design resilient infrastructure that can handle massive compute trading volumes with 24 / 7 reliability.
• Integrate with compute providers, exchanges and financial protocols while maintaining strict security and compliance.
• Collaborate directly with founders on technical roadmap, hiring strategy and product evolution, with full flexibility to introduce new technologies and paradigms.

What you bring

• Deep platform / distributed systems experience in high-stakes environments (trading, fintech, infra or high-throughput services).
• Strong proficiency across Python / TypeScript / Golang (or equivalent polyglot stacks) with proven ownership of production-grade systems.
• Expertise in real-time systems, performance optimisation, fault tolerance and scalable architectures under uncertainty.
• Experience with financial protocols, market data feeds, order matching or compute infrastructure is a strong plus.
• Thrives in greenfield environments : making architectural trade-offs, shipping fast, iterating based on live feedback.

Why you might care

• Early-stage opportunity to define a category-leading platform at the nexus of AI compute economics and financial markets.
• £150k base + substantial equity upside with world-class founders and elite VC backing.
• London-based, hands‑on technical leadership role tackling novel problems with brilliant minds and rapid impact.