3 months ago
Hong Kong, Hong Kong or London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and performant JVM services and APIs for low-latency execution and efficient memory management.
- Translate complex risk models and business requirements into well-tested, robust implementations.
- Collaborate with quantitative analysts and product teams on financial products and risk models.
- Optimize and refactor the codebase to improve automated testing, performance, and maintainability.
- Write clean, documented code, participate in code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Java backend engineer.
- Advanced proficiency in Java with knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, and JVM performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with automated testing, including unit testing, integration testing, TDD, and simulation or stress testing.
- Knowledge of software design fundamentals, design patterns, DRY principles, Clean Code, and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, with GCP preferred.
- Foundational understanding of financial products, risk management concepts, or risk methodologies such as SPAN and VaR.
- Strong mathematical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Familiarity with event-sourced architectures, columnar databases, Kotlin, or low-latency libraries such as Chronicle Queue is preferred.
- Interest or minor experience in mentoring junior peers is preferred.
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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.