Senior Software Engineer – Real-Time Trading Systems

BlockTech; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + bonus plan

Relocation package

Pension plan

Company laptop

Internet reimbursement

Training budget

Gym membership reimbursement

Daily breakfast & lunch

Snack & drinks

Regular social events

Dutch classes

Job summary

BlockTech in Amsterdam is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to take technical ownership of our core trading systems and shape their evolution as we scale.

You will own position, PnL, instruments, hedging and data flows, build real-time services with low latency, and set the technical standards for the team.

The role includes a base salary with a strong bonus plan, pension, a company laptop, relocation support for internationals, training budgets and rich benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience, including production systems where correctness and reliability are non-negotiable.
• Proficiency across our stack: comfortable with a Rust service, a Python data pipeline, and a complex production issue.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, or distributed systems; trading/fintech a strong plus.
• Experience with Grafana & PostgreSQL.
• Critical thinker who follows things through to completion and knows what done means.
• Ability to design and own completely new components from first principles.
• High level of responsibility and ownership.
• Good written and verbal English.

Responsibilities

• Own the books: maintain and evolve position, trade, and PnL systems across venues.
• Architect the trading platform: design services for real-time exchange flow with high throughput and reliability.
• Own the data flows: operate pipelines bringing market prices, account state, and trade events in real time.
• Lead venue integrations end-to-end: exchanges and prime-broker integrations across protocol and settlement.
• Model the instrument universe: lifecycle, expiry, margins, RFQs, fast-path quoting.
• Build self-healing systems: detect and repair position discrepancies automatically.
• Own hedging infrastructure: gamma and delta hedging systems for trading strategies.
• Deliver reporting: PnL, surveillance, treasury, and compliance reporting.
• Raise the bar: mentor junior engineers and influence technical direction.

Skills

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

Low-latency

Grafana

PostgreSQL

English

Tools

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Job description

BlockTech in Amsterdam is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to take technical ownership of our core trading systems and shape their evolution as we scale.

You will own position, PnL, instruments, hedging and data flows, build real-time services with low latency, and set the technical standards for the team.

The role includes a base salary with a strong bonus plan, pension, a company laptop, relocation support for internationals, training budgets and rich benefits.