Senior Trading Systems Engineer

Storm2; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base + revenue share

Job summary

Storm2 is partnering with a proprietary trading and market-making firm that handles prediction markets across politics, sports, economics, crypto and global news. The senior trading systems engineer will build and maintain integrations with venues, develop low-latency market-data and order-management systems, and design robust execution frameworks.

You will work with quantitative researchers and experienced traders on live markets with real capital.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering in compiled languages (Rust/Go/Java/C++), plus Python for tooling.
• Experience in electronic trading, financial infrastructure or markets data.
• Deep knowledge of concurrency, distributed systems, messaging and fault tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrations with external trading and market-data venues.
• Develop low-latency market-data and order-management systems.
• Design robust execution frameworks and state-machine-driven workflows.
• Manage order lifecycles: acknowledgements, fills, cancellations, replacements, recovery.
• Build automated pre-trade and post-trade risk controls.
• Create reconciliation tooling to align internal records with venue state.

Skills

Rust

Go

Java

C++

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Low-latency

Job description

I've recently partnered with a proprietary trading and market-making firm focused on prediction markets. They provide liquidity and automated execution across event-driven markets such as politics, sports, economics, crypto, and global news. Having recently just crossed $2B in volume on Kalshi, they're looking to expand their 19-person trading desk by brining on a senior trading systems engineer.

What You'll Do

• Building and maintaining integrations with external trading and market-data venues
• Developing low-latency market-data and order-management systems
• Designing robust execution frameworks and state-machine-driven workflows
• Managing order lifecycles including acknowledgements, fills, cancellations, replacements, and recovery
• Building automated pre-trade and post-trade risk controls
• Creating reconciliation tooling to ensure internal records match venue state

What They're Looking For

• Strong software engineering experience in Rust, Go, Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, or similar
• Experience in electronic trading, financial infrastructure, payments etc.
• Deep understanding of concurrency, distributed systems, messaging, and fault tolerance
• Experience integrating external APIs and real-time streaming systems
• Strong knowledge of state management, recovery, retries, idempotency, and event processing

What they're offering

• Base + % of annual revenue share
• Build the execution platform for a growing automated trading desk
• Work on systems connected to live markets and real capital
• Work closely with quantitative researchers and experienced traders.