Senior Software Engineer

Caladan; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily catered lunch

Health insurance and wellness benefits

Unlimited vacation policy

Participation in company bonus pool

Job summary

Caladan is seeking a Senior Engineer to drive a high-performance, real-time trading platform in a Linux environment. You will design, build, and maintain components for order management, market data, and routing, collaborating with traders and business development to rapidly implement new ideas.

Ideal candidates have a track record in distributed, high-throughput, low-latency systems using C# or modern C++ (>=11) and exposure to Git, CI/CD, Kafka, FIX and cloud tech.

Qualifications

• Experienced in implementing infrastructure components for high-volume, low-latency trading.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain a highly performant, highly available adaptive trading platform.
• Implement order management, compliance, exchange connectivity, market data, and routing functionality.
• Design and implement next-generation real-time trading platform.
• Operate and support the global trading system, troubleshoot and debug issues.
• Collaborate with traders and business development to implement ideas swiftly.
• Mentor junior engineers and support professional growth.

Skills

C#

C++ (>=11)

Linux

Low latency

Distributed systems

Git

CI/CD

Kafka

FIX

Cloud

OMS/PMS

Exchange connectivity

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Kafka

FIX

Cloud

Job description

As a Senior Engineer you’ll be surrounded by smart and motivated colleagues with complimentary skillsets, offering a great platform for you to contribute ideas, commit code and help the team achieve tangible results.

What you'll be doing

Working as a part of a broader trading platform development team, you will:

• Design, build and maintain a highly performant, highly available adaptive trading platform providing access to a broad range of CeFi, DeFi and OTC liquidity sources.
• Use software development methodologies to implement and extend order management, compliance, exchange connectivity, market data, and routing functionality.
• Design and implement our next-generation real-time trading platform.
• Manage and support the operation of our global trading system, troubleshooting and debugging issues.
• Work closely with traders and the business development department to implement new ideas swiftly.
• Mentor less experienced team members, act as a role model and support their professional growth.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experienced in implementing infrastructure components facilitating high volume, low latency trading within a prop trading firm or hedge fund.
• Track record of building highly performant, distributed and optimised (high throughput and/or low latency) systems in C# or modern C++ (>= 11) in a modern Linux environment.
• Outcome focused - able to balance speed to market and building highly available and robust platforms.
• Exposure to meta programming, Git, CI/CD, unit/integration testing, Kafka, FIX, Cloud
• Proactive communicator, willing to voice opinions but able to disagree and commit
• Knowledge of OMS/PMS platforms, exchange connectivity or high volume OTC trading would be advantageous.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Participation in company bonus pool
• Daily catered lunch
• Health insurance and wellness benefits
• Unlimited vacation policy

About Caladan

Caladan brings rationality to strange and unruly markets. We explore the frontier of finance, seek out new opportunities, and make markets more efficient and honest wherever we go. We support exchanges, tokens, and institutional investors with on-exchange liquidity, DeFi expertise, treasury solutions, and investments. Since 2017 we've been a pioneer in crypto market-making, powering over $170B in annual transactions across 1000+ assets.