Senior Software Engineer - Derivatives
About FalconX
FalconX is a pioneering fintech start-up working at the intersection of traditional finance and crypto markets. The company provides institutional trading, financing, and custody solutions across digital assets.
Role Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer – Derivatives, you will scale FalconX’s derivatives product: designing and operating end-to-end systems for a global trading platform. You’ll collaborate with product, OTC desk, and trade operations to build resilient, high-throughput backend services.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build and evolve derivatives systems, infrastructure and processes.
Architect scalable, high-performance services for institutional trading.
Partner with product, platform, frontend and data teams to deliver full-stack capabilities.
Debug, optimise and improve transactional systems under load.
Mentor junior engineers, review designs and drive code quality.
Requirements & Qualifications
5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in Python or Go.
Hands-on experience with AWS, MySQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, Kubernetes and high-availability systems.
Strong fundamentals: concurrency, multithreading, multiprocessing.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Bonus: knowledge of derivatives (options, futures, perpetuals), startup experience.
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