Senior Software Engineer, SFOX
Trading
Cryptocurrency prime dealer for institutional investors
Job no longer available
Cryptocurrency prime dealer for institutional investors
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build technology that makes it easier to access cryptocurrency.
Role
Who you are
- Candidates should be intellectually curious with experience independently executing projects to completion and into ongoing monitoring
- Candidates should be able to write efficient code and discuss ideas and methods to implement and improve the systems
- The candidate must be very proficient at programming and basic algorithms and frameworks
- 3-5 years of experience in an institutional-based role
- Experience designing and implementing institutional financial trading systems, such as high throughput transactions, hedging systems, position managers, trading models
- Highly proficient at programming in low level languages such as Golang (preferred), C++, or C#
- Understand technical requirements and be able to independently translate them into a working framework / product
- Understand system performance and optimization approaches
- High attention to detail and low level debugging
Desirable
- Experience in low latency environments
- Experience in markets (preferably crypto / FX)
- Knowing details of market making, managing positions, pricing etc
- Experience with DeFi
- Experience with derivatives
- Good communication skills (able to translate sales asks to engineers)
- Ability to work in a very lean fast paced environment and handling development changes quickly and in parallel
What the job involves
- SFOX is looking for a Senior Trading Systems Software Engineer to join the internal trading team
- This is a lean team led by seasoned algorithmic traders and engineers responsible for building and supporting a diverse and feature rich technology stack enabling sFOX to trade across global counterparties with an array of strategies building out client market making led by experienced traders / engineers from previous Investment banking backgrounds
- As a member of this team, you will work with other software engineers and traders to design, develop, and improve the trading stack
- You would be expected to design and develop both improvements to existing and new trading systems, monitoring systems, and connectivity
- Collaborate across teams to develop and maintain quality software systems that support 24/7 global trading operations, spanning trading systems, exchange connectivity solutions, and monitoring systems
- Utilize Golang to design and implement full-stack software systems, conducting thorough testing at unit, functional, and integration levels
- Provide on-call support as required
- Foster collaboration with traders, product managers, and fellow software engineers across the organization
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
SFOX (San Francisco Open Exchange) is a cryptocurrency prime dealer that enables traders to access global crypto markets with one account. Unlike the wealthy consumer-facing products for private trading, SFOX focuses on professional traders and institutional investors, offering higher returns when trading large volumes.
Rather than acting as an exchange in its own right, SFOX helps high volume traders to buy and sell orders by executing them through its integrations with over 30 cryptocurrency exchanges. Despite the current downtown in crypto markets following the FTX collapse, SFOX is seeing an increase in business as institutional traders seek safer and more tax compliant ways to navigate the digital assets marketplace.
SFOX was part of Y Combinator's 2014 batch, and is led by an experienced team of operators. It has not been shy about attracting talent from top institutions, especially targeting engineering and legal professionals to further develop its product and ensure compliance with increasing regulations on the crypto space.
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2018
$22.7m
SERIES A
Jul 2014
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $22.9m
Company benefits
- Remote-first culture - work from where you are
- Unlimited PTO - take time off when you need it
- Paid holidays and company-wide wellness days off
- Health/dental/vision/life insurance and flexible spending accounts available for you and your family
Company HQ
Stanford, CA
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Founders
Akbar Thobhani
(Chairman)Having taken an MBA at MIT, Akbar worked as Director of Product Management at BOKU, before co-founding PlayPass and working at Airbnb for 4 years. They then co-founded SFOX in 2014, serving as CEO since.
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