Staff Back-End Engineer

Blockchain is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Founded in 2011, we provide the world’s largest and most trusted production blockchain platform, powering more than 75 million wallets. Together with our platform of liquidity and execution services, we share the passion to build an open, accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.

As a Staff Back-End Engineer on our Cryptocurrency Trading Platform, you will take on a leadership role in shaping the direction of our technology while working closely with the trading team and quantitative analysts (quants). You will collaborate with business stakeholders to design and implement systems that meet real-time trading demands, improve market efficiency, and support advanced trading strategies. You’ll be a technical advocate for excellence and lead by example in fostering a culture of high standards, agility, and innovation within the team. The role is based in London and the team is international.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Design and optimize low-latency trading systems in Rust that power algorithmic trading strategies and support real-time execution in the volatile crypto market.
• Lead the design and implementation of trading algorithms, optimizing liquidity management, price discovery, and slippage reduction in dynamic market conditions.
• Promote best practices in software engineering, advocating for clean, scalable, and maintainable code to ensure that systems are built with both immediate performance and long-term sustainability in mind.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to quickly adapt the trading platform to new data, market conditions, and business needs.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear alignment between engineering, business teams (trading, quants), and leadership, especially when discussing complex technical solutions or business goals.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability of trading systems while maintaining a sharp focus on performance and testing.
• Drive technical decision-making and contribute to high-level architecture discussions, ensuring that all solutions align with the company’s goals for scalability, performance, and security.
• Be a technical advocate for excellence, leading efforts to improve development processes, code quality, and overall system performance through best practices and knowledge sharing.
• Prioritize rapid iteration of trading algorithms to ensure maximum profitability, minimal risk, and fast execution, adapting quickly to volatile market conditions.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

COMPENSATION & PERKS

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