Senior Software Engineer - OTCTECH
Flow Traders11 hours ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Work with traders, quants, Operations, Risk, and Compliance to understand trading requirements, workflows, and data flows.
- Design and deliver a new OTC Trading Engine spanning Equities, ETFs, Fixed Income, and Crypto.
- Define service boundaries, data models, interfaces, event flows, and documented architectural decisions.
- Modernize existing applications and build greenfield services and platforms that can be safely operated and evolved.
- Develop high-performance distributed services, data pipelines, and integrations using Java, C++, and Python.
- Build event-driven systems using messaging and pub/sub patterns, including production testing, observability, failure handling, monitoring, root-cause analysis, and recovery mechanisms.
- Own delivery from design and implementation through deployment and production operation.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating distributed backend systems in production.
- Expertise in Java or C++ with working knowledge of Python.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and scalable system design.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
- Proven experience building high-performance, low-latency systems.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Experience with testing, code reviews, observability, and automation.
- Experience in trading, capital markets, or financial services is desirable.
- Exposure to Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native technologies, BigQuery, or large-scale data platforms is desirable.
- Comfort leveraging AI tools to improve productivity while maintaining quality and accountability.
Benefits
- Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences.
- Daily catered lunch, coffee, a stocked kitchen and snack bar, and an in-house bar and lounge.
- In-house gym and sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer.
- Bi-weekly massages, a company boat, an annual company trip, and other company events.
- Global rotations across offices worldwide.
- Collaborative, non-hierarchical culture with onboarding, ongoing support, competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share, and comprehensive benefits.
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About Flow Traders
Flow Traders builds electronic trading technology and acts as a principal liquidity provider in exchange-traded products, derivatives, fixed income, and digital assets across global markets. Its revenues come from market making and proprietary trading, using in-house software to quote and manage risk on- and off-exchange for institutional counterparties. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Flow Traders is publicly listed on Euronext Amsterdam and operates across multiple financial centers.