Essential Functions / Responsibilities

• Analyze Business/Product requirements and propose effective and efficient technical solutions in delivering changes and innovations to the Pintu Exchange Accounts landscape within expected parameters of cost, time, and quality
• Work with a project focus group (product engineering, product management, architecture, and CTO) to compile a work breakdown structure of tasks for given deliverables and provide realistic estimates for completion or project assignments.
• Design, implement and maintain robust and effective solutions for client balances management, exposure monitoring, assets allocation, and locking for active orders that operate in real-time high throughput environment.
• Develop and unit test all functional Account Management related modules created or modified according to software development best practices.
• Together with Client APIs and Matching Engine Teams, develop, evolve and maintain effective internal components communication protocols between all elements on the Pintu Pro Exchange landscape.
• Develop and maintain the respective operational benchmarking and monitoring models for all landscape modules related to the Pintu Pro Account Management infrastructure
• Collaborate with other Developers, SREs, and QA Engineers to execute full-cycle integration, functional, and regression testing. Own and resolve all priority defects identified within the solution codebase efficiently and in a timely fashion
• Promote software changes across all environments, safely and responsibly, through Development, Staging environments to deploying updates to the Production environment in a zero-downtime manner
• Provide on-call Level 2 technical support during business and, occasionally, off hours depending on rotation, act as an escalation point for the Level 1 support in case of severe issues
• Participate in team exercises to identify and implement areas for continuous improvement, and be proactive in bringing your ideas across
• Educate and mentor your engineering colleagues in the areas of your own expertise and domain knowledge, and be open-minded and approachable

Experience Required

• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in the financial trading domain (exchanges, proprietary trading firms, market makers, brokers, etc.) At least 2 years working in the crypto industry.
• General understanding of the general Exchange microstructure model and components
• Experience in developing high-load and high-throughput systems, serving large (thousands to millions) amounts of incoming API connections.
• Good understanding of the CEX operating principles and client-facing APIs (market data, ordering, balance monitoring, historical inquiries, etc.)
• Experience in designing and building various Exchange Risk Management engines and models, specifically:

• margin models and engines
• liquidation models and engines
• derivative contract models, specifically
  • crypto futures/option
  • perpetual futures
  • perpetual options

• Experience working in small focus teams of high-skilled developers.
• The ideal candidate should also have experience building and running/operating Exchange’s client account-related components in production.

Necessary Skills

• Good knowledge of the Linux operating system
• Solid hands-on experience in Go
• Understanding or messaging protocol engines and models (gRPC, Protobuf, Thrift, Avro, etc.)
• Hands-on experience working with one of the Message Broker solutions (Kafka, RocketMQ, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with the Continuous Integration principles (unit testing, pull requests, GitHub, or any specific continuous integration engine like GitLab/Jenkins/etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience in building high memory load models and high throughput data processing pipelines
• Good knowledge of code analysis and profiling techniques and tools (for example, Coverity, Valgrind, etc.)
• Personal: self-sufficient with good hard and soft skills, committed and responsible, able to perform well under pressure

Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Experience in C++ and/or Java (optional)
• Experience working with Application Containers and Container Orchestrators (example: Kubernetes or Nomad)
• Experience working under Continuous Delivery and Zero-Downtime models (for example: blue-green deployments, canary deployments, etc.)
• Knowledge of Google Cloud and AWS Cloud Infrastructure and components (products)
• Good understanding or experience in Scrum methodology
• Understanding various trading models, types of trading, and rationale behind trading and market making
• a solid plus goes to candidates that are doing any of the crypto trading (or any other asset classes) themselves on a private basis