3 months ago
Base Salary
$235k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance risk systems for the Clearing function.
- Architect infrastructure to ingest and transform market-data feeds efficiently.
- Apply data models and workflows across risk management, regulatory reporting, and clearing.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, data freshness, and throughput.
- Enforce code quality, automated testing, and SDLC best practices.
- Identify bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies through performance profiling.
- Collaborate with product managers, quants, and risk managers across global teams to translate requirements into technical specifications.
- Drive the evolution of the platform’s target-state architecture and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience supporting front-office trading systems at a regulated financial institution.
- Deep knowledge of risk management frameworks, including initial margin, variation margin, SPAN, VaR, default waterfalls, real-time mark-to-market valuation, stress testing, and backtesting engines.
- Strong understanding of derivatives, including options, futures, Delta, Gamma, and their effect on risk profiles.
- Expert Java proficiency building fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems.
- Deep experience with performance tuning, garbage-collection optimization, concurrency, and memory management.
- Implementation experience with Aeron and Kafka.
- Expertise designing data structures, event schemas, and database models.
- Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL data stores, including Postgres, Redis, and MongoDB.
- Understanding of testing methodologies, Twelve-Factor App practices, distributed high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies, and hexagonal architecture.
- Ability to use large language models such as Claude and Gemini to accelerate development while maintaining engineering standards.
- Experience with cloud and DevOps ecosystems such as AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker is preferred.
- Experience with Airflow and dbt is preferred.
- Knowledge of FIX and FIXML protocols is preferred.
- Familiarity with Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery is preferred.
- Experience with Tableau or Superset is preferred.
- Strong ownership, outcome orientation, collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing capabilities.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of $235,000-$275,000, plus discretionary annual target bonus and performance incentives/benefits.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to a globally diverse community.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SupersetAWSDatabricksdbtDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMongoDBPostgreSQLRedisSnowflake
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About Bullish
Bullish operates a regulated digital asset platform for institutional and professional investors, built around a spot and derivatives exchange that combines a central limit order book with automated market making. It is regulated by BaFin (Germany), the Hong Kong SFC, and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. Bullish also owns CoinDesk, including CoinDesk Indices, market data products, and a digital media and events business.