System Architect (Market Making)

EVOLUTION RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in Singapore is seeking an experienced professional to architect and deliver a production-ready market-making system. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in building market-making or high-frequency trading systems, strong proficiency in C++ or Rust, and a proven ability to design end-to-end trading platforms. Responsibilities include low-latency system design, exchange integration maintenance, and collaboration with trading teams to ensure robust system logic.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building market-making, HFT, or real-time trading systems.
• Strong proficiency in performance-critical languages such as C++ or Rust.
• Proven ability to design and implement trading platforms end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver a production-ready market-making system.
• Drive low-latency system design and optimization within cloud-based infrastructures.
• Design and maintain exchange integrations.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver a production-ready market-making system, including pricing, quoting, risk management, order management, market data ingestion, and monitoring components

• Drive low-latency system design and optimization within cloud-based infrastructures (e.g., AWS, GCP)

• Design and maintain exchange integrations, addressing venue-specific behaviors and constraints across crypto derivatives markets

• Build simulation and testing environments to support strategy validation, backtesting, and stress scenarios

• Implement resiliency mechanisms such as automated failover, redundancy, and safeguards against exchange downtime, API instability, and rate limits

• Partner closely with trading teams to translate strategy requirements into robust system logic and workflows

• Define and enforce engineering best practices, including code quality, system reliability, and deployment processes

Requirements

• 10+ years building market-making, HFT, or real-time trading system

• Strong proficiency in performance-critical languages such as C++ or Rust, with Python used for research and tooling

• Proven ability to design and implement trading platforms end-to-end, spanning market data, execution, and risk controls

• Hands-on experience optimizing network performance and latency in cloud or non-co-located environments

• Deep understanding of exchange interfaces, including WebSocket, REST, and FIX-style protocols

• Track record of close collaboration with traders or quantitative teams