Crypto Trading Systems Engineer

Hedge Fund; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A quantitative trading firm in Los Angeles seeks a skilled Trading Systems Engineer to design and scale their automated trading strategies. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in trading systems, high-performance backend development, and familiarity with crypto market infrastructure. The role involves working directly with engineers and the founder to optimize and enhance trading platform capabilities. This position is well-suited for motivated individuals eager to contribute in a hands-on environment and build systems end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Experience with trading systems or automated trading infrastructure.
• Familiarity with crypto market infrastructure and blockchain internals.
• Knowledge of exchange integrations (CEX or DEX).
• Experience in building trading bots or arbitrage systems.
• Proficiency in high-performance backend systems.
• Real-time data ingestion and streaming expertise.
• Experience with distributed systems or performance-critical applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale core systems for the trading platform.
• Build and scale automated arbitrage strategies.
• Develop high-performance pricing and execution systems.
• Improve risk monitoring, portfolio management, and trading infrastructure.
• Design systems for data ingestion, streaming, and market monitoring.
• Build tooling for on-chain transaction execution and signing.

Skills

Trading systems or automated trading infrastructure

Crypto market infrastructure or blockchain internals

Exchange integrations (CEX or DEX)

Building trading bots or arbitrage systems

High‑performance backend systems

Real‑time data ingestion and streaming

Distributed systems or performance‑critical applications

Tools

Rust

Python

AWS (CDK infrastructure‑as‑code)

Job description

Family office backed quantitative trading firm focused on systematic, market-neutral arbitrage across crypto markets is looking for a trading systems engineer to help scale their trading strategies. This is a hands‑on role where you will work directly with the founder and a small team of engineers to design, implement, and operate production trading systems. Their systems are fully automated and designed to extract yield from inefficiencies across centralized exchanges and on‑chain venues.

What You’ll Work On

You will help design and scale the core systems that power our trading platform, including:

• Building and scaling automated arbitrage strategies
• Developing high‑performance pricing and execution systems
• Expanding infrastructure for cross‑exchange and cross‑DEX trading
• Improving risk monitoring, portfolio management, and trading infrastructure
• Designing systems for data ingestion, streaming, and market monitoring
• Building tooling around on‑chain transaction execution and signing
• Scaling existing strategies such as:
  • Funding rate arbitrage
  • Basis arbitrage
  • Cross‑exchange arbitrage
  • Cross‑DEX arbitrage
  • Synthetic hedging strategies
  • Liquidation engines

Tech Stack

Primary languages:

• Rust
• Python

Infrastructure:

• On‑premise infrastructure
• AWS (CDK infrastructure‑as‑code)
• High‑throughput market data systems
• Custom pricing engines

Qualifications

Ideal candidates will have experience with some combination of:

• Trading systems or automated trading infrastructure
• Crypto market infrastructure or blockchain internals
• Exchange integrations (CEX or DEX)
• Building trading bots or arbitrage systems
• High‑performance backend systems
• Real‑time data ingestion and streaming
• Distributed systems or performance‑critical applications

Nice‑to‑have experience:

• Rust development
• Crypto market infrastructure
• DeFi protocols or on‑chain execution
• Smart order routing or exchange connectivity
• Portfolio monitoring or risk systems

Candidate Profile

We are primarily looking for strong individual contributors who:

• Enjoy building systems end‑to‑end
• Can work independently in a small, high‑ownership team
• Are comfortable operating in a research and engineering hybrid environment
• Prefer building and scaling production systems rather than purely theoretical research

Engineers at all levels of experience are welcome if they are technically strong and highly motivated.