Lead Engineer, Risk Technology
Core
Lead a high-performance risk engineering team building the computational backbone for a regulated digital asset exchange, optimizing real-time margin, stress, and exposure calculations.
Role type
Senior IC Java backend engineer (risk systems)
Builds
Low-latency JVM services and APIs for margin requirements, stress scenarios, and portfolio exposures
Domain
Digital assets / Financial technology / Quantitative finance
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Java (expert, low-latency), JVM optimization, risk modeling (SPAN, VaR), TDD, microservices, Kubernetes, GCP, financial products expertise
Preferred skills
Event-sourced architectures, columnar storage, Chronicle Queue, Kotlin, mentoring
Technologies
Java, JVM, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Chronicle Queue
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable low/zero-GC JVM services; decompose complex business requirements into tested implementations; collaborate with quantitative analysts; optimize and refactor codebase for performance and maintainability
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC