Senior Backend Engineer, D2X
Rust or C++
+ stock options
More information about location
4+ days a week in office
The pan-European digital derivatives exchange
Open for applications
The pan-European digital derivatives exchange
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ stock options
More information about location
4+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bridge the gap between digital assets and traditional finance for institutions, by providing the safest regulated infrastructure to accelerate the development of the asset class.
Role
Who you are
- Several years of professional experience in system-level programming languages. C and C++ are fine, Rust is a plus
- You deliver. You enjoy thoughtful conversations about problems and perfecting designs, but in the end, you know that what matters is delivering a solution that always works
- You find big challenges exciting and enjoy discovering problems as much as solving them
- Previous experience in the financial industry is highly advantageous
- Ability to express your ideas and thoughts to your team members clearly in English and the ability to communicate with stakeholders and other teams
- A familiarity with, or the willingness to pick up a DevOps/SRE mentality and to learn about containers and Kubernetes
- You take leadership, initiative and are continuously on the watch to make your team more productive
What the job involves
- D2X is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our Amsterdam office
- Digital assets trade round-the-clock, 365 days a year. Therefore, we are constantly seeking the most advanced technology to offer a fast and reliable trading interface. Rust allows us to achieve that in a productive way
- Developing, testing, and optimizing our codebase is the bread and butter of our engineers
- We are eager to adopt innovative technologies as we see fit, and everyone’s opinion and experience of technology is valued
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for setting architectural direction for our core exchange containers, delivering large bodies of well-crafted code, and owning projects that directly impact D2X systems
- You will work closely together in multidisciplinary teams to develop a deep understanding of trading, exchanges and how the hardware works on which our machines are running
- You're not attached to tools and technologies; you focus on solving problems
- Own the services you develop, from design, development, testing and deployment to running production of our distributed trading platform
- Your challenge is to further innovate and maintain the foundation underlying our wider infrastructure
- Lead talented, young engineers by reviewing code, fostering their technical and professional growth, and creating an environment where continuous learning is a given
- Actively contribute to internal tooling, including production pipelines, testing frameworks and shared services
- Build professional relationships across the business to ensure we're feeding the best ideas into our solutions
- Balance the race to production with software quality, extensibility, and testability
Our take
D2X is hoping to become Europe’s first regulated derivatives exchange for the digital asset industry. This is no mean feat in a tightly regulated market. Binance dropped its EU version of this back in 2021 due to regulatory pressures, with around a dozen countries (including the US and the UK) warning of the need to get stricter authorisation to be permitted to operate.
To try and dodge Coinbase’s fate, D2X will be listing cash-settled derivatives denominated in Euros, which makes it less operationally risky and more regulation-compliant. Assisting D2X in this regard will also be their partnership with surveillance, risk & anti-money laundering technology provider, Scila.
We’ve reached a point where derivatives regularly account for the majority of trades in the crypto market. The problem is, they’re mostly traded on offshore and unregulated platforms like Binance, and tempting users off these platforms is no easy task. CME Group in the US, for example, is the only regulated marketplace to have gained any real traction - and its trading volume is dwarfed by Binance.
D2X proposes an ambitious and groundbreaking project, however, and it could truly revolutionise the European crypto trading scene, aided by recent funding that will facilitate expanding internationally and to new asset classes
Steph
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$10m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$5.2m
SEED
Total funding: $15.6m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Stock option plan
- Commuting allowance
- Free bike
- Gym membership & wellness incentives
- Monthly team outings
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Learning experience in financial markets and digital assets
- Dynamic, international, innovative, and respectful work environment
- Energetic, collaborative, and fun culture
Company values
- Reliable
- Transparent
- Innovative
- Driven
Company HQ
Stadionbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Don van der Krogt
(CTO)Previously co-founded crypto trading platform CryptooZ, before moving on to work as an Equity Derivatives Trader at All Options.
Laetitia Grimaud
(General Counsel)Worked as a Linklaters solicitor covering England and Wales, before moving on to serve as Senior Legal Counsel for capital markets and blockchain at Natixis.
Théodore Rozencwajg
(CEO)Worked in equity derivatives sales at Natixis, before moving on to work as a trader in the same field at All Options.
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