Staff Engineer (Amsterdam)

Provable Markets LLC; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 vacation days per year

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Provable Markets LLC is modernizing decades-old infrastructure in the traditional capital markets and building a cloud-native platform to replace legacy stacks. You will work on backend systems spanning pre-trade, trade matching, lifecycle management, and reporting, delivering high-quality, scalable services in a rapidly growing startup.

The role demands 10+ years of experience, strong collaboration with Product and Engineering, and a passion for robust architectures that operate with high

Qualifications

• 10+ years of broader experience, ideally in a startup that grew rapidly and supported a large user base.
• Ability to communicate effectively with Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
• Own and drive backend projects from inception to implementation.
• Highly organized with attention to detail and maintainable systems.
• Team player with a positive attitude and strong work ethic.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive backend projects from inception to implementation.
• Communicate effectively with Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
• Build robust, scalable systems with high SLAs in a fast-growing environment.
• Collaborate with product and business teams to align on technical direction.
• Focus on delivering high quality, well-designed backend services.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

Async communication

Job description

Provable is modernizing decades old infrastructure in the traditional capital markets by bringing together the brightest minds in engineering and finance. Our two teams, based in Amsterdam and New York, work hand in hand to build, enhance, and operate an SEC Registered Alternative Trading System (ATS) for the $8TN+ Securities Finance Market that underpins the global financial system.

Our cloud-native platform has been built entirely in house from scratch to enhance and replace old technology stacks composed of disparate, costly, and inefficient systems. We work closely with the largest clearing house in the world, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (the DTCC), and some of the most prominent financial institutions across the globe. Our mission is to correct a long broken market structure by providing a neutral, value driven, full scope offering to market participants with varying needs and requirements. Our pragmatic approach to engineering is at the heart of what we do, and we maintain the highest standards of integrity, quality of work, and transparency in all that we do. We are a small, but growing team looking for hard working, prideful, and kind individuals to help us drive our mission forward.

The Role

Our system architecture contains multiple components to serve the needs of a highly complex and complicated sector of the capital markets. Securities Lending workflows that are managed by our system rely on a combination of pre-trade, trade matching, ongoing life cycle management, reporting, and multiple layers and endpoints of connectivity. We have built a robust UI that sits atop all of this, along with an API layer used for direct server to server integration. You will work on developing the various (new) systems that facilitate the different aspects of the platform that together with our product and business team. To achieve this, you are someone passionate about delivering a high quality experience to customers, and anticipating demands of a rapidly scaling and highly complex ecosystem.

Requirements

10+ years of broader experience, ideally in a startup that went through a rapid growth period and supported a large and diversified user base

Ability to communicate effectively with Product, Engineering, and Business team members

Own and drive backend projects from inception to implementation

Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through; appreciation for well-designed, simple, maintainable systems

Team player with a positive attitude, strong work ethic, and desire to attack problems in real-time

We are building systems that run in environments with very little tolerance for error and maintain high SLAs, so you'd do well with a perfectionist streak, but not to an impractical extent. Perfect is the enemy of good.

Knowledge of and/or experience in the financial services industry, with a focus on institutional trading applications is a plus, but not a

Nice to Haves

Experience with Go

Familiarity with Google Cloud and/or Kubernetes

Experience with distributed systems and async communication

Experience with capital markets infrastructure including exchanges, trading venues, clearance and settlement ecosystems

Understanding of equity, fixed income, and derivatives products and trading strategies

Understanding of financing markets and underlying workflows

Understanding of execution systems and related components such as smart order routers and algorithmic trading products

Have worked in environments with:

That heavily interact with databases and message queues

Have strict availability requirements

and/or have a lot of connectivity with external partners / customers

Experience in a Startup environment

Competitive salary: depending on education/work experience.

Vacation days: 25 days of holiday per year based on full time employment.

Working hours: We operate on a hybrid basis currently, with 2 days with everyone in the office, 1 day optional and 2 days where most people are working from home. We believe that in person, real-time collaboration is the best form of communication, but understand that everyone works differently. Due to the serious nature and location of our existing commercial business we rely on common sense, over communication, and flexibility from our teammates across regions on managing their time to ensure the customers come first.

We are eager to get to know you and look forward to working with you.

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