Senior Software Engineer, FalconX

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in Python or Go
• Hands-on experience with AWS, MySQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, and Kubernetes, with an understanding of trade-offs across technologies
• Strong grasp of systems fundamentals: concurrency, multithreading, and multiprocessing
• Experience building and operating high-scale, high-availability systems
• Clear written and verbal communication around technical design and trade-offs
• Comfort working in a fast, iterative development environment

Desirable

• You’ll focus on scaling FalconX’s Derivatives product
• This means designing and operating systems that support a global trading platform at scale
• You’ll work with Product, our OTC Desk, and Trade Operations to shape middle- and back-office systems that are resilient, auditable, and built for speed
• Design, build, and evolve derivatives systems, infrastructure, and processes
• Architect scalable and performant services for high-throughput institutional trading
• Partner with product, platform, frontend, and data teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Debug, optimize, and harden transactional systems under load
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
• Break down complex work for junior engineers, review designs, and provide technical mentorship
• Continuously identify technical debt and implement improvements with long-term maintainability in mind