BitMEX
Senior Software Engineer, Trading Technology (Query Stack)
Job Summary
This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining fault-tolerant, containerized microservices for an API-driven data environment. The candidate will work on exchange data infrastructure, collaborate with internal and external teams, and evaluate new technologies. Key qualifications include extensive experience with Java, distributed systems, and databases, along with a degree in computer science or engineering. The position emphasizes agility, cross-team collaboration, and adaptability within a fast-paced, global crypto trading environment.
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About BitMEX
BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with “no coin lost, ever!”.
Our platform caters to cryptocurrency derivatives traders by providing low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability. Currently, BitMEX offers more than 100 derivatives contracts, 16 pairs for spot trading, and an easy covert function between 30+ different cryptocurrencies.
In 2015, BitMEX revolutionised the market by inventing the Perpetual Swap, which has since become the most widely traded crypto product. Demonstrating a commitment to transparency, since 2021, BitMEX has been among the first exchanges to regularly publish its on-chain Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabilities, ensuring that the funds available exceed the total client balances."
For more information on BitMEX, company initiatives and our products, please visit the BitMEX Blog or www.bitmex.com, and follow LinkedIn, Discord, Telegram and X.
Overview
The Trading and Market Data team is responsible for producing, and providing access, to the vast amount of BitMEX trading-related data and market data. This is via APIs for both internal and external clients. BitMEX’s clients make thousands of queries per second to a rich data set of both public and private trading data, including real time position, order book information and time-series based execution and order data.
The team provides a flexible and performant API for clients to efficiently access this data. The team also builds and maintains the firm’s Market Data infrastructure, including market data feed handlers, data capture and storage and analytics for various cryptocurrency exchanges, and also calculates the realtime index prices used to value client positions.
Responsibilities
- Design, development, maintenance and support of fault-tolerant, containerised distributed systems of microservices, for the writing and reading of exchange data
- Provide services to both internal and external clients, such as new products, support tooling, analysis tooling. This is a rapidly moving environment with a varied and expanding product line
- Evaluation of new technologies
- Collaboration with peers, internal and external users on technical design and direction
- Act as a senior technical resource to junior engineers
Qualifications
- Have a Computer Science/Engineering degree
- 10+ years of writing Java components in a distributed fault tolerant environment. Integration with data sources, such as relational databases and messaging middleware.
- Comfortable with TDD/BDD, with a good appreciation of clean coding principles
- Spring
- Rest services, to extract/insert data from databases
- Strong engineering skill set with firm grasp of fundamental Computer Science principles
- Work in a Linux/containerised environment and have experience tuning it
- Collaborate across time zones/team boundaries to engineer best possible outcome
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities within a fast moving industry and startup culture
Nice to have:
- Experience with algorithmic trading
- Exposure to Data Warehousing solution, specifically AWS/RDS
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- Experience in the finance industry
- An interest in the crypto trading space
Why BitMEX?
BitMEX offers a dynamic environment that blends intense work, a vibrant culture, and diversity. We actively recruit across time zones to meet growing demands and attract top global talent.
We're seeking determined, responsible, and collaborative individuals to join us in building a leading cryptocurrency ecosystem. We value meticulousness, agility, and simplicity. As a 24/7 global exchange, we look for adaptable team players who can excel in a diverse, cross-market environment.
We provide flexible arrangements to our remote contract talents with:
- Work from home to help you find the perfect balance between work, family and personal life
- Paid holidays and leave so you won’t miss out any important events
- Team building & offsite events to bring our global team closer
- Don’t forget the advantage of our Beyond Border Remote Working policy, where you get to work away from your home country
- Option to choose to be paid in fiat or crypto currency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom
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Does this sound like the type of working culture you can thrive in? Apply online now!
BitMEX
Welcome to BitMEX, Most Advanced Crypto Trading Platform for Bitcoin. Home to the Perpetual Swap, industry leading security, up to 100x leverage and a 100% verified customer base.
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