Senior Software Engineer - Trading & Liquidity

About Quidax

Quidax is where money meets limitless possibilities. We're making it super easy for individuals, businesses, and fintechs in Africa to access crypto. Our goal? Providing real value for our customers today while shaping the future of money.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Trading & Liquidity squad and build the systems that power the heart of Quidax.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving hard backend problems where reliability, performance, and correctness matter. You'll build and operate Java services that power trading, pricing, liquidity, order execution, settlement, and exchange integrations. These are systems where milliseconds matter, failures have financial impact, and every design decision counts.
You’ll thrive here if you’ve built transaction-heavy financial systems before, enjoy thinking deeply about distributed systems and concurrency, and love taking ownership of critical services from design through production.

What You’ll Be Owning

Build & Own Critical Trading Services

• Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable Java services powering trading, pricing, execution, and liquidity.

• Own critical backend services end to end, from architecture and implementation to production support and continuous improvement.

• Build systems that remain reliable under heavy traffic, partial failures, and changing market conditions.
  

Trading, Execution & Liquidity

• Develop and improve order management, execution, pricing, market data, and liquidity management capabilities.

• Build and maintain integrations with exchanges, liquidity providers, custodians, payment providers, and other external platforms.

• Improve execution quality through better pricing accuracy, spreads, fill rates, liquidity availability, and reduced slippage.

Build Reliable Financial Systems

• Design reliable order lifecycles covering validation, routing, execution, settlement, reconciliation, cancellations, retries, and recovery.

• Ensure financial correctness across balances, positions, fees, and settlements through precision, idempotency, consistency, and auditability.

• Build distributed systems that behave correctly under concurrency, retries, duplicate events, and eventual consistency.
  

Improve Performance & Reliability

• Continuously improve system performance, resilience, observability, throughput, and operational readiness.

• Investigate production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive improvements.

• Build testing strategies covering unit, integration, contract, performance, and resilience testing.
  

Raise the Engineering Bar

• Participate in architecture and technical design decisions across the Trading & Liquidity squad.

• Review code, mentor engineers, and help raise engineering standards across the team.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Platform, QA, Security, Compliance, Risk, Finance, and Operations to deliver reliable financial systems.

Biggest Challenges You’ll Tackle

This isn't a role where you're simply building APIs.

• You'll be solving engineering problems where correctness, speed, and resilience all matter at the same time.

• Some of the challenges you'll tackle include:

• Building systems that continue operating reliably during volatile market conditions.

• Designing distributed systems that remain consistent despite failures, retries, and duplicate events.

• Improving latency and execution quality without sacrificing correctness.

• Managing concurrency, race conditions, transaction boundaries, and eventual consistency across critical financial systems.

• Building exchange and liquidity-provider integrations that remain resilient when external systems fail.

• Delivering systems where balances, settlements, and financial records remain accurate and fully auditable.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who enjoys owning complex backend systems and takes pride in building software that performs reliably in production.

Experience

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.

• Strong commercial experience building Java backend systems.

• Proven experience with Spring Boot and the wider Spring ecosystem.

• Experience owning production systems from design through operation.

• Experience building distributed systems, microservices, or event-driven architectures.

• Experience working in trading, crypto, exchanges, capital markets, payments, or other transaction-heavy financial environments.

• Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices.
  
  

Technical Skills

You should have strong practical experience across most of the following areas:

• Java: JVM fundamentals, memory management, collections, generics, concurrency and multithreading, streams, performance optimisation, exception handling, and functional programming.

• Spring Ecosystem: Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, dependency injection, transaction management, scheduling, validation, and configuration.

• Databases: PostgreSQL or MySQL, SQL optimisation, indexing, transactions, isolation levels, data modelling, and connection pooling.

• Distributed Systems: Microservices, event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, Kafka or RabbitMQ, service communication, eventual consistency, distributed transactions, idempotency, retries, caching, and failure recovery.

• Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, monitoring, logging, tracing, observability, and production operations.

• Security: Authentication, authorisation, API security, secure coding practices, secrets management, OAuth2, JWT, and OpenID Connect.

Trading & Liquidity Knowledge

You'll be comfortable working with concepts such as:

• Order books and matching engines.

• Market, limit, and stop orders.

• Bid/ask pricing, spreads, liquidity, and slippage.

• Order routing and execution.

• Market data and pricing feeds.

• Exchange and liquidity-provider integrations.

• Settlement, reconciliation, balances, and positions.

• Decimal precision and financial calculations.

• Risk controls and abnormal market behaviour.

You'll Stand Out If You

• Take ownership of systems rather than just writing code.

• Enjoy solving production problems and improving reliability.

• Can clearly explain technical decisions and trade-offs.

• Raise the quality of engineering through mentoring and code reviews.

• Stay calm when solving complex production incidents.

• Care deeply about building systems that customers can trust.

Reporting Line

You'll report to the Engineering Manager for the Trading & Liquidity squad and work closely with Product, Platform, QA, Security, Compliance, Risk, Finance, and Operations to build reliable financial systems.

Why Quidax

At Quidax, we’re building the future of finance in Africa through crypto. You’ll have the freedom to innovate, the space to lead, and the backing to build something that truly scales. If you’re ready to build an engineering org that delivers excellence at scale, let’s talk.

What’s In It For You
When you join Quidax, you’re not just taking a job, you’re jumping into a community that’s bold, remote-first, and building for the future. Here’s what you get:

💰 Fair Pay + Ownership

• Competitive salary based on your skills and experience; annual merit-based reviews to keep your growth visible and rewarded

🚀 Growth That’s Real

• Annual performance reviews + clear promotion cycles; recognition for great work, from shoutouts to milestone rewards

• Personal development fund (courses, books, conferences); study leave so you can keep learning

🧘🏾 Work That Works For You

• Fully remote forever + flexible working hours

❤️ Time Off That Respects Life

• Unlimited paid time off + Nigerian national holidays

• Parental, sick, compassionate, and life event leave; we show up for you

🌍 Connection That Feels Real

• Quarterly remote team hangouts + annual offsite; interest-based communities (SIGs)

• Regular engagement surveys; your voice matters

• Health & life coverage in select locations

TL;DR:
You’ll do meaningful work, grow fast, and have the flexibility to live your best life, all while building something big with people who care.

Let’s build the future of finance together 💜

How to apply:

We love seeing applications that speak directly to us. It’s easy for your application to get lost in a sea of generic ones, especially when we’re sorting through dozens of them. So, make yours stand out! Show us your personality, your passion, and why you’re the perfect fit. We appreciate the effort it takes to create something thoughtful and unique.

What our hiring process looks like

It’s a three-step process.

✅ 1. First Connect (with the Recruiter) - 30 mins
Let’s talk about your experience, your story, and how you might fit at Quidax.

✅ 2. Technical Chat - 120 mins
Talk us through your real wins, show us how you solve problems, live with the team.

✅ 3. Culture Chat - 45 mins

You get the change to meet members of our leadership team and y’all can talk shop.

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