Senior Software Engineer
Who are we?
FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever- evolving cryptocurrency landscape.
Responsibilities
- ● Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team.
- ● Write low latency high throughput code
- ● Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
- ● Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large
scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems - ● Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and
best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for
these standards through code review. - ● Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best
practices for a high-scale web environment.
Job requirements
- ● At Least 5 years of experience working in software development with minimum 2 years of working experience in Golang, C++ or Python.
- ● Familiarity and work experience with automated trading systems (order entry and market data protocols such as FIX in production applications)
- ● Familiarity with modern web technologies like AWS cloud, MySQL database, Redis caching, messaging tools like Kafka/SQS etc
- ● Comfort working in a highly agile, intensively iterative software development process.
- ● Strong knowledge of low latency, high throughput software techniques (lock free programming, memory management, etc.)
- ● Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- ● Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
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Inclusivity Statement
FalconX is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe workspace for all people. Our roles are intended for people from all walks of life. We encourage all those interested in applying to our organization to submit an application regardless if you are missing some of the listed background requirements, skills, or experiences!
As part of our commitment to inclusivity, FalconX would like to acknowledge that the EEOC survey has limited potential responses that you can select. For legal reasons, FalconX must use this language to align with federal requirements, however, we want to ensure that you are able to provide a response to our own voluntary survey questions about your identity that best aligns with your most true self.
FalconX is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, citizenship, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
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