5 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance trading systems supporting market data ingestion, order routing, and execution.
- Provide cross-cutting technical solutions for OTC, market making, proprietary, and systematic trading businesses.
- Optimize performance across application, operating system, network, and supporting hardware layers.
- Own technical issues through resolution while working independently and applying strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Thoughtfully adopt AI tools and automation to improve team performance, decision-making, and output quality.
Requirements
- Excellent core Java skills and extensive experience optimizing Java applications and garbage collection.
- Exceptional knowledge of concurrency and multithreaded programming.
- Experience developing low-latency pricing and trading systems.
- Knowledge of low-latency messaging technologies such as Aeron and 29West.
- Solid understanding of TCP/UDP, multicast, routing, switching, congestion control, and kernel bypass technologies such as DPDK, Solarflare/OpenOnload, and RDMA.
- Familiarity with Linux internals, including scheduling, memory management, and performance tuning.
- Bonus: eFX development experience in a low-latency, zero-garbage-collection environment.
- Bonus: knowledge of institutional encodings such as FIX and SBE.
- Bonus: experience with fault-tolerant, highly available distributed computing, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus are offered, with compensation details not specified.
- Company-paid health and protective benefits are available for employees and eligible dependents, varying by location.
- Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions are provided.
- Employees receive opportunities to learn about the crypto industry and participate in Employee Resource Groups.
About Galaxy
Galaxy provides an institutional digital-assets platform spanning trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization, and it builds and operates AI/HPC data-center infrastructure. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the public company operates the Helios campus in Texas and is developing a multi-gigawatt U.S. capacity pipeline. It monetizes through fees, market activities, and infrastructure services for financial institutions and enterprises across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.