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Lead Engineer, Trading Platform Engineering

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-18 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design and optimize high-performance, mission-critical trading systems at the intersection of software and hardware for a global digital asset exchange.

Role type

Senior IC low-latency systems engineer (kernel & networking)

Builds

High-performance central limit order book matching engine and automated market making systems

Domain

Digital asset trading infrastructure / High-frequency trading systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C, Java, Linux kernel internals, low-latency system design, advanced networking (UDP/TCP, DPDK, XDP), distributed systems (sequencer/virtual synchrony), concurrency & synchronization, performance profiling (perf, eBPF)

Preferred skills

Financial market infrastructure experience, PTP time synchronization, RDMA/NIC offloads, JVM low-latency tuning, advanced benchmarking methodology

Technologies

C, Java, Linux, DPDK, XDP, eBPF, perf, strace

Responsibilities

Design and build high-performance services in C and Java; Engineer performance-critical components in user space and kernel interfaces; Develop and tune networking pipelines; Optimize Linux kernel subsystems for memory, scheduling, and I/O; Optimize systems for deterministic latency via CPU isolation and NUMA locality; Apply distributed systems patterns for total ordering; Profile and debug system bottlenecks using advanced tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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