Staff/Senior Trading Technology Engineer

P2P; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 90 000 - 140 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Ethena is building a fast, resilient trading platform central to its flagship products USDe & sUSDe. You will help design and deliver scalable market data, execution capabilities, and new trading strategies in a high-velocity team.

You will collaborate with quant and engineering peers, applying TDD/BDD, CI/CD, and SOLID practices to ensure low-latency, high-throughput systems with strong fault tolerance.

Qualificações

• Extensive experience in trading systems development across data feeds, algo engines, backtesting, and execution.
• Strong fundamentals in modern software practices (TDD, BDD, CI/CD, SOLID).
• Deep understanding of financial markets, multi-venue infrastructure, and security.
• Crypto trading venues and derivatives experience with major exchanges and instruments.
• Multi-venue trading experience including routing and reconciliation.
• High-performance, low-latency system design and optimization expertise.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and strategic technical decision making.
• Passion for testing and automation with comprehensive test coverage.

Responsabilidades

• Own large elements of designing and implementing a robust trading platform for efficient execution with minimal slippage.
• Develop high-performance market data pipelines and integrate with venues via REST/WS and FIX.
• Collaborate with quant and trading teams to develop new strategies and execution logic.
• Apply modern software practices: TDD, BDD, CI/CD, and SOLID principles.
• Design fault-tolerant architectures ensuring high availability and reliability.

Conhecimentos

Trading systems

Software engineering fundamentals

Crypto trading

Multi-venue trading

High-performance design

Problem solving

Testing & automation

Ferramentas

REST/WS

FIX protocol

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The Role

Ethena has quickly established itself as the fastest growing and most innovative financial product utilising digital asset technology to date. The Trading Technology team is 3 exceptional engineers from the highest quality trading environments. Joining them you share in the full responsible for the overall strategy, development, and maintenance of Ethena’s trading platform. Which sits at the heart of, and powers, its flagship products: USDe & sUSDe.

The role reports to the Team Lead. Our focus is on high-quality engineering, resilient system design, development-velocity, and delivering best-in-class execution capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to Building a Greenfield, Best-in-Class, Next-Gen Trading Platform: Own large elements of designing and implementing a robust trading platform that ensures efficient execution of large trade sizes with minimal slippage.




• Develop Market Data and Execution Capabilities: Build high-performance market data pipelines and ensure seamless integration with multiple trading venues (REST/WS, FIX, and other protocols).




• Own Delivery of New Product and Feature Development: Collaborate with quant and trading teams to develop and implement new trading strategies and execution logic.




• Foster Software Excellence: Apply modern software development best practices, such as TDD, BDD, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and SOLID principles.




• Optimize for Performance and Resilience: Design fault-tolerant architectures with failover mechanisms to ensure high availability and reliability.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive Experience in Trading Systems Development: Track record of building and supporting trading infrastructure from the ground up, including market data feed handlers, algo engines, backtesting frameworks, and execution platforms.




• Strong Software Engineering Fundamentals: Expertise in modern development practices (TDD, BDD, CI/CD, SOLID), how to write modular, clean, code, and resilient system design.




• Deep Understanding of Financial Markets: Strong knowledge of trading mechanisms, security protocols, and infrastructure management across multiple venues.




• Experience with Crypto Trading Venues and Derivatives: Hands-on experience working with centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) and trading instruments such as perpetual swaps and deliverable futures.




• Multi-Venue Trading Experience: Understanding of order routing, trade reconciliation, and execution quality optimization across multiple trading venues.




• High-Performance System Design: Expertise in optimizing for system performance, ensuring low-latency execution, high throughput, and execution quality.




• Excellent Problem-Solving Skills: Strong ability to break down complex challenges into actionable solutions and make strategic technical decisions.




• Passion for Testing and Automation: Strong advocate for TDD, BDD, and test automation with hands-on experience in unit, integration, regression, performance, and end-to-end testing.