Senior Engineer, Trading

About the Job

zerohash is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build new features, as well as scaling a gateway to Finance 2.0. We are a high performing team looking for an equally ambitious and driven teammate. The right candidate for this position is detailed oriented, deeply technical and driven. You are eager to learn new technologies and complex systems. You build resiliency and scalability into the platform at every step. If you are looking to have a massive impact in a high-growth startup in one of the most exciting markets in decades, you will find the role challenging and rewarding in equal measure.

This is a fully remote role for a candidate based in North America.

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Responsibilities

• Support the company's vital business by contributing to the design and development of software in an event-drive microservices environment
• Develop microservices in Golang
• Work with platform engineers to setup new services
• Respond to production issues and alerts
• When necessary, communicate directly with client technical teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience, preferably in the FinTech space
• Deep Proficiency with Golang.
• Understanding of SQL and database schema design
• A humble and scrappy get-it-done mindset; you're resourceful and in your element going from 0 to 1
• Solid understanding of market structure, order types (Limit, Market, Stop, IOC, FOK), trade lifecycle and common risks associated with electronic trading
• Excellent problem solving skills - can troubleshoot complex systems
• Hands on experience developing, and maintaining high performance low-latency trading systems
• Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently lay out and test clear hypotheses and solve problems without well-defined direction
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience
• Experience at a banking-as-a-service, brokerage-as a service, payment-as-a-service business
• Experience with digital assets
• Experience with distributed systems design and messaging frameworks (e.g., Kafka, ZeroMQ or NATS) for data distribution and persistence

Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance: zerohash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children (U.S. only)
• Vision & Dental Insurance (U.S. only)
• Chance to earn equity
• Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6 months)
• WeWork All Access Membership
• WFH Yearly Stipend
• L&D Yearly Stipend (after 6 months)

About zerohash

zerohash is the leading crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform and the operating system for digital money, powering the next generation of financial services. Founded in 2017, zerohash enables banks, brokerages, fintechs, and payment companies to offer crypto trading, stablecoin payments, and tokenized assets without having to build or manage complex blockchain infrastructure on their own.

The zerohash Culture

All zerohash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:

• Independence/Ownership
• Passion
• Collaborative
• Initiative
• Empathy
• Adaptability
• Transparency
• Integrity