Systems & Support Engineer, Archax
+ Discretionary bonus
5 days a week in office
Digital securities exchange, broker and custodian
Be an early applicant
Digital securities exchange, broker and custodian
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Discretionary bonus
5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To kickstart the digital securities market in the UK and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- Bring some experience supporting a variety of systems and technologies preferably from a capital markets environment
- The successful applicant will have worked in an environment where internal developers have built trading software
- A strong engineering background, be ambitious, bright, motivated and have substantial experience in a highly technical role
- Comfortable gaining and maintain professional qualifications
- Archax is a highly regulated fintech scale-up so experience of working in a rapidly evolving fluid company is vital
- The successful applicant must have experience in a firm that has delivered product to external customers
- 2-3 years + experience as a hands-on Technical Support Engineer/Application Support Analyst
- Hands on experience administering Linux and Windows estates
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Networking knowledge
- Hands-on experience administering Office365 platform and applications
- Understanding and experience with the administration of SQL databases
- Experience with task automation, leveraging Python, Bash and/or PowerShell
- Experience with monitoring tools – PRTG, Grafana, OpenSearch, Prometheus
- Experienced in taking ownership, responsibility and accountability of projects end to end
- Excellent project management skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical skills including problem solving and solution-orientated thinking
- Able to use initiative, work unsupervised and comfortable taking responsibility
- Energetic personality with the drive to effect change and develop relationships across all levels of the business
- Degree or relevant industry qualification
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/containerised environments
- Experience with No-Code tools such as Retool or Appsmith
- Experience with SOC2/ISO 27001 Certifications
What the job involves
- Archax has reached a growth point in its development and an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Systems & Support Engineer to join the team
- They will provide a senior technology support function and ongoing project-based engineering work across the technology estate, including desktops, severs, networking, public cloud and applications, both off the shelf and bespoke
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Archax is a London-based global digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian. The company builds an exchange designed for institutions and uses existing and proven exchange infrastructure integrated into the institutional trading workflow.
Archax notably stands out as the first firm to receive FCA authorisation as a digital securities exchange. Founded by a team of experts from traditional capital markets and backed by an experienced advisory board, Archax has a deep understanding of how to successfully bridge the blockchain landscape with the existing investment space.
The company is making strides by expanding its offerings and capabilities. With the launch of its first tokenised funds on the XDC Network, bringing major money market funds onto the blockchain to improve liquidity, speed up settlement, and cut operational costs. Alongside this, it has acquired King & Shaxson Capital Markets, further enhancing its brokerage, custody, and trading services, putting in itn a key player position in the growing world of regulated cryptocurrency platforms.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2022
$28.5m
SERIES A
Sep 2021
$4.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $45.1m
Company benefits
- Company pension scheme
- Death in service benefit
- Comprehensive private healthcare scheme
- 25 days holiday, increasing by one day each year (up to 30 days)
- Opportunities to attend events and represent Archax and its vision
- Encouragement and support in your personal career development and industry knowledge
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Andrew Flatt
(Founder & CTO)Previously served as CTO for Omni Partners, Systems Analyst for Infinity Capital Markets, Infrastructure Engineer for Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Support Analyst for CACI.
Graham Rodford
(Founder & CEO)Previously acted as CCO and later as a Partner for Omni Partners, Head of Operations for HSBC, COO for Caliburn Capital Partners, Finance Officer for Leo Fund Managers, and as a Financial Accountant for Coutts Bank.
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