Amsterdam 110-130K + OTE
Supergrads has been assigned by an Amsterdam-based algorithmic trading firm to search for a Trading Software Engineer. Our client’s goal is to capture market making and arbitrage opportunities across a wide variety of exchanges. Their trading infrastructure is fully automated making thousands of trades every day across hundreds of order books.
My client started 3 years ago and since they have built, and continuously improved their trading infrastructure and algorithms. Today, they have a leading position at a handful of exchanges, and they are at a very exciting point where they are scaling their trading operations to new exchanges and growing fast in their AUM and revenue.
This is your opportunity to join an agile, fast-moving and entrepreneurial crypto trading firm that’s got a proven track record. You’ll be one of a core team gaining significant traction in their field.
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to develop high-performance infrastructure components from scratch. Through this, you’ll have a lot of influence and impact on the company. Also, it requires a high degree of ownership as you’ll be responsible for deploying, maintaining and fine-tuning your newly built components.
What will you be doing?
- Build entirely new trading infrastructure components
- Improve existing and implement new trading algorithms
- Drive and implement performance improvements
- Build and optimize exchange connectors (REST and WebSocket API clients)
- Optimize network connectivity across cryptocurrency exchanges with ultra-low latency network providers
- Operations, such as system deployment, monitoring and tweaking trading algorithms
What should you bring?
- 4+ years of professional experience as a software engineer using object-oriented languages
- Confident in building new infrastructure components in Rust
- Willingness to work with Typescript as well. While they are transitioning their infrastructure components to Rust, the majority of their production infrastructure is currently in Typescript.
- Prior experience in the trading industry, preferably crypto. They will also consider experience with private crypto projects.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including experience with algorithms, data structures, system design and distributed systems
- They need someone practical, results driven and who takes ownership
- Enjoy working with a small and dedicated team
- Interested in and curious about trading and digital assets
What is on offer?
- A collaborative and energetic work environment
- Opportunity to become a key team member of an early-stage trading firm
- A competitive base salary and a very attractive bonus scheme based on company and individual performance
- Flexible working: work up to 2 days a week from home and 3 weeks a year from anywhere
- A delightful office in East Amsterdam with a professional barista setup for great coffee
- Free lunch at the office
- A MacBook Pro and a headset of your choice
- 28 paid holidays
- Commuting allowance
They like to have a bit of fun along the way as well. So there will be after work drinks and team lunches from time to time. They also join network events and conferences to keep themselves sharp and up to speed on the industry.
Excited about this fantastic opportunity? Do not hesitate to apply here!
