Trading Systems Engineer

Selby Jennings; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings seeks a Trading Systems Engineer to build and scale a high-performance trading platform for live electronic trading across multiple venues in Singapore.

You will develop and maintain exchange connectivity, market data and order management systems, and optimize low-latency infrastructure while collaborating with traders and quantitative researchers to deliver production-ready tools and reliable systems.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Rust for concurrent, high-performance apps.
• 3+ years building backend systems in latency-sensitive finance domains.
• Experience with exchange connectivity, market data, and trade execution.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale a high-performance trading platform for live trading.
• Develop and maintain exchange connectivity, market data and OMS.
• Enhance low-latency infrastructure and execution systems.
• Build core components such as OMS, engines and risk controls.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production trading systems.
• Collaborate with traders and quants to deliver production-ready tools.

Skills

Rust

Backend systems

Latency optimization

System profiling

Tools

OMS

Execution engines

Risk controls

Job description

A quantitative trading firm is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to help build and scale a high-performance trading platform supporting live electronic trading across multiple venues.

Responsibilities

• Trading Systems Engineer (Rust)
• A quantitative trading firm is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to help build and scale a high-performance trading platform supporting live electronic trading across multiple venues.
• Develop and maintain exchange connectivity, including market data and order management systems
• Enhance and optimize low-latency trading infrastructure and execution systems
• Build and extend core platform components such as OMS, execution engines, and risk controls
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability of production trading systems
• Collaborate closely with traders and quantitative researchers to deliver production-ready solutions and trading tools

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience with Rust, including concurrent and performance-focused applications
• At least 3 years of experience building backend systems in trading, market making, financial markets, or other latency-sensitive environments
• Experience developing exchange connectivity, market data, and trade execution systems
• Strong understanding of system profiling, performance optimization, and debugging
• Ability to work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable engineering solutions

Preferred Skills

• Python experience for tooling and prototyping
• Exposure to quantitative trading, risk management, or pricing systems
• Experience with live trading infrastructure and configuration management platforms
• Background in high-performance or low-latency systems

What\'s Offered

• Opportunity to work on mission-critical trading systems with direct business impact
• Close collaboration with traders and quantitative teams
• Exposure to complex engineering challenges in real-time trading environments
• Competitive compensation and benefits package