Senior Software Engineer, Trading Technology (Query Stack)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

The Trading and Market Data team at BitMEX is responsible for producing and providing access to a vast amount of BitMEX trading-related data and market data via APIs for both internal and external clients. BitMEX’s clients make thousands of queries per second to a rich data set of both public and private trading data, including real-time position, order book information, and time-series based execution and order data. The team provides a flexible and performant API for clients to efficiently access this data. The team also builds and maintains the firm’s Market Data infrastructure, including market data feed handlers, data capture and storage, and analytics for various cryptocurrency exchanges, and calculates the realtime index prices used to value client positions.

Responsibilities

• Design, development, maintenance, and support of fault-tolerant, containerized distributed systems of microservices for the writing and reading of exchange data.
• Provide services to both internal and external clients, such as new products, support tooling, and analysis tooling. This is a rapidly moving environment with a varied and expanding product line.
• Evaluation of new technologies.
• Collaboration with peers, internal and external users on technical design and direction.
• Act as a senior technical resource to junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Have a Computer Science/Engineering degree.
• 10+ years of experience writing Java components in a distributed, fault-tolerant environment.
• Integration experience with data sources, such as relational databases and messaging middleware.
• Comfortable with TDD/BDD, with a good appreciation of clean coding principles.
• Experience with Spring and Rest services for extracting/inserting data from databases.
• Strong engineering skill set with a firm grasp of fundamental Computer Science principles.
• Experience working in a Linux/containerized environment.

Company Information

BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with “no coin lost, ever!”. Our platform caters to cryptocurrency derivatives traders by providing low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability. Currently, BitMEX offers more than 100 derivatives contracts, 16 pairs for spot trading, and an easy covert function between 30+ different cryptocurrencies. In 2015, BitMEX revolutionized the market by inventing the Perpetual Swap, which has since become the most widely traded crypto product. Demonstrating a commitment to transparency, since 2021, BitMEX has been among the first exchanges to regularly publish its on-chain Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabilities, ensuring that the funds available exceed the total client balances. For more information on BitMEX, company initiatives and our products, please visit the BitMEX Blog or www.bitmex.com, and follow LinkedIn, Discord, Telegram, and X.