Full Stack Engineer
Wintermute2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop end-to-end applications for new trading products, client-facing portals, and internal trading applications.
- Design and implement backend services, APIs, data models, and market-data systems.
- Build frontend interfaces and integrate them with backend services using asynchronous requests and real-time browser data streaming.
- Help create and drive the vision for trading platforms and portals from scratch across customer lifecycle stages.
- Oversee or support corporate website frontend development and collaborate with product, marketing, trading, and engineering teams.
- Build high-performance, scalable applications and develop broader system architecture knowledge.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience across both backend and frontend.
- Strong backend engineering skills with Go and/or Python, including service, API, and data-model design.
- Working knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js/npm, and a modern frontend framework such as React.js.
- Experience with client-facing financial or professional-services products is preferred; fintech or cryptocurrency experience is a plus.
- Understanding of CDN, Cloudflare or similar services, web servers, containers, CI/CD, monitoring, and logging.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS, including services such as EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, VPC networking, and load balancers.
- Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code experience is a plus.
- Working knowledge of relational databases and caching, including schema design and efficient queries.
- Experience developing secure code, understanding OWASP risks such as cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, and applying authentication, authorization, secrets-handling, testing, and mitigation practices.
- Interest in algorithmic trading is a plus, and relevant personal or work-related projects are accepted.
Benefits
- Performance-based compensation with significant earning potential, plus pension and private health insurance.
- Flexible work-from-home and working-hours arrangements, although fully remote work is not available.
- UK work permits and relocation assistance are offered.
- Central London office with team meals, holiday celebrations, gaming events, company outings, table tennis, foosball, personalized desks, breakout areas, games, and free food.
- Collaborative, informal, non-hierarchical startup-oriented culture with ambitious and professional teams.
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About Wintermute
Wintermute is a privately held, London-based algorithmic trading firm focused on digital assets. It provides automated market making across cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms and offers OTC trading services, earning revenue from trading and liquidity provision. Founded in 2017, the company also supports Web3 projects and traditional financial institutions entering crypto through liquidity partnerships and investments.