Software Engineer (EMS)

You will design, build, and optimise a multi-region, multi-tenanted Execution Management System. You will develop low-latency and high-throughput components, improve critical-path performance, maintain fault-tolerant services, and support data consistency across regions. You will also implement monitoring and alerting, review code, collaborate across functions, and use AI coding assistants critically.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement low-latency high-throughput EMS systems
• Analyse and optimise critical system paths
• Maintain distributed fault-tolerant systems across multiple regions
• Ensure data consistency and low-latency communication
• Implement real-time monitoring telemetry and alerting
• Collaborate with product QA and infrastructure stakeholders
• Review code rigorously
• Use AI coding assistants critically

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional backend engineering experience with concurrent performance-sensitive systems
• Production Rust expertise and ability to explain and defend a non-trivial Rust system
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures such as NATS or Aeron
• Knowledge of multi-tenancy patterns and best practices
• Familiarity with AWS GCP or Azure and multi-region deployment tools
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL SQLite Redis and ZooKeeper
• Experience with Prometheus Grafana or the ELK stack
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of crypto markets and products is desirable
• Experience leveraging LLMs to accelerate delivery
• Financial services experience and trading or EMS platform experience are desired

Benefits

• Fully paid medical scheme for employees and their family
• Discounted dental scheme for employees and their family
• Generous time off and bank holidays
• Enhanced parental leave after one year of employment
• Weekly Ubereats allowance
• Free onsite gym
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid study leave
• Personal leave