Full Stack Engineer – Real-Time Options Trading
Westbury Partners – Sydney NSW
Full time
3d ago , from E-Financial Careers Australia
Build high-performance trading applications that combine intuitive user experiences, scalable backend systems, and real-time data to help traders price, manage, execute, and optimize options strategies.
What You'll Do:
- Build the next generation of high-touch options pricing and trading workflow applications.
- Develop full-stack solutions spanning modern frontends, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Create intuitive, high-performance interfaces for real-time trading decisions.
- Design scalable services supporting pricing, market data, workflow orchestration, and trading operations.
- Prototype innovative ideas rapidly and transform successful concepts into production-ready systems.
- Improve the performance, scalability, stability, and usability of mission-critical applications.
- Translate complex financial concepts into intuitive and effective software solutions.
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
- Partnering directly with traders, quantitative researchers, sales teams, and business leaders.
- Designing workflows that improve pricing, execution, research, and risk management.
- Building applications capable of supporting new markets and previously unsupported option instruments.
- Developing real-time systems for researching, monitoring, pricing, and executing trades.
- Designing APIs and asynchronous, event-driven services.
- Building and maintaining distributed and service-oriented architectures.
- Analyzing complex technical and business challenges and developing elegant solutions.
- Collaborating across engineering, quantitative research, and trading teams.
- Continuously refining applications based on performance, scalability, and user feedback.
Why Join Us:
- Work directly at the intersection ofsoftware engineering, options trading, and quantitative research .
- Build technology that traders rely on for real-time decision-making.
- Solve challenging problems involving distributed systems, high-performance applications, and financial markets.
- Gain exposure to multiple global markets and sophisticated options trading workflows.
- Shape new trading capabilities while helping expand technology into new markets.
- Combine technical depth with meaningful interaction with traders and business stakeholders.
- See your ideas evolve rapidly from prototypes into mission-critical production systems.
About You:
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex applications.
- Strong full-stack development experience across modern frontend and backend technologies.
- Proficiency withTypeScript and React .
- Experience designing scalable backend services usingC++ or Python .
- Experience developing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
- Strong understanding of API design, asynchronous systems, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience building real-time, high-performance applications.
- Passion for intuitive user experiences, interaction design, and rapid prototyping.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable tackling open-ended and technically complex challenges.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
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