3 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance microservices and stream-processing pipelines for risk management, regulatory reporting, and clearing.
- Architect scalable infrastructure to ingest and transform market data feeds.
- Optimize data models and workflows across the trade lifecycle, including capture, netting, and settlement.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, data freshness, and overall system resilience.
- Enforce code quality, test automation, and software development lifecycle best practices.
- Identify functional bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies through performance profiling.
- Translate complex requirements into technical specifications with product managers, quants, and risk managers.
- Drive the evolution of the platform’s target-state architecture and mentor teammates.
Requirements
- 6+ years of engineering experience supporting front-office trading systems at a regulated financial institution.
- Advanced proficiency in Java.
- Implementation experience with Aeron and Kafka middleware.
- Expertise designing data structures, event schemas, and database models.
- Proficiency managing SQL and NoSQL data stores, including Postgres, Redis, or MongoDB.
- Deep understanding of testing methodologies, high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies, and software development lifecycle best practices.
- Familiarity with using large language models such as Claude or Gemini to accelerate development while maintaining engineering standards.
- Strong ownership, outcome orientation, adaptability, collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing skills.
- Nice-to-have experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Airflow, dbt, FIX, FIXML, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, or Superset.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits, discretionary annual target bonus, and performance incentives are offered in addition to base salary.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SupersetAWSDatabricksdbtDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMongoDBPostgreSQLRedisSnowflake
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.