Software Engineer, Talos
Portfolio Management Systems
$170-200k
+ Bonus + Equity
3+ days a week in office
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets
Job no longer available
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$170-200k
+ Bonus + Equity
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide institutional-grade technology that supports the full digital asset investment lifecycle, including liquidity sourcing, price discovery, trading, settlement and portfolio management.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in at least one programming language (e.g. C++, Java, or Python) - we use Golang
- Experience building and maintaining APIs that handle significant data volumes with real-time processing requirements
- Proven track record of implementing complex state management systems
- Good understanding of financial concepts, with exposure to risk management and portfolio systems a plus
- Excellent skills in writing comprehensive unit and integration tests
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical designs
- You're an engineer who thrives on building high-performance systems and can bridge the gap between complex requirements and technical solutions
- You enjoy working with real-time systems and have experience handling time-critical processing requirements
- You take ownership of complex technical challenges and enjoy seeing your solutions directly impact trading operations
- You are collaborative and energized by working in a small team
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer in our Portfolio Management Systems team, you'll help build Talos' new flagship product, reimagining how risk management systems work in the digital assets space
- You'll develop critical components of our institutional-grade trading infrastructure, focusing on real-time risk management and portfolio analytics for cryptocurrency markets
- Working on systems that process millions of records with real-time computation, you'll enable instant decision-making for trading operations and risk assessment in this emerging asset class
- Design and implement real-time risk management systems that power trading decisions, including position monitoring and limit enforcement
- Develop and maintain APIs that provide seamless access to risk metrics and portfolio data while ensuring optimal performance for real-time processing
- Create and enhance settlement orchestration systems managing multi-cryptocurrency workflows
- Build and integrate components across our Investment Book of Records (IBOR) system, ensuring accurate position tracking and risk assessment
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into technical designs and implement them with comprehensive testing
- Design and maintain integrations with our Order Execution Management System (OMS) for position and rate limit enforcement
Our take
So far, the increasing institutional interest in the value of crypto-assets has been stymied by a lack of scaled, efficient, and secure infrastructure that these institutions could use for trade. Talos addresses the problem of digital asset trading between institutions, helping them to securely sidestep these obstacles into a fresh market with potentially huge returns.
The company provides a range of end-to-end, highly configurable tools to populate and facilitate the institutional crypto-asset market from just one platform. Talos' approach is helping to lower the bar for wide-ranging adoption of cryptocurrency, supporting the full lifespan of digital assets trading. That said, because the company is developing an entirely new asset class market, progress is accelerated, and competition may have a chance to overtake.
Promising for Talos was the interest of prominent investors, including PayPal and Fidelity, during their Series A and B funding rounds. The funds were used to create an institutional-grade service that would help shape and spearhead this developing market. More recently, the company has formed several significant partnerships, including with BlackRock, and acquired D3X Systems, the integration of which will enable its clients to design, validate, implement, and manage highly customised portfolios.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$45m
SERIES B
May 2022
$105m
SERIES B
Total funding: $196m
Company benefits
- Retirement plan contribution
- Bonus and stock ownership plan
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- Unlimited Vacation + PTO Bonus: Talos provides their employees with unlimited PTO. Employees that take 15 days of vacation, with 5 days being consecutive, receive a $2000 USD bonus.
- Paid parental leave for 20 weeks
- Genuine flexible working; Typically dependent on the team, but it's encouraged for employees to discuss flexible working options with their manager
- Global offsites and team outings
- Family building & reproductive care support
- Home office stipend: Talos Employees receive a one-time stipend towards their at home office set-up.
- Wellness Credit: Talos employees are provided with a wellness credit of $50 USD accrued monthly, to go towards things like gym memberships, ski passes, massages, and work out classes
- Talos employees receive a credit of $25 USD towards their lunch, when they are in office.
- Donation matching up to $100 USD annually
- FSA & HSA benefits
Company values
- Out-of-the-box thinking: We look for entrepreneurial, non-linear thinkers who are passionate about their work and can imagine creative, groundbreaking solutions. After all, we’re seeking to reshape an industry.
- Ideas over egos: We take a collaborative and systematic approach to problem solving. Everyone’s voice is heard and appreciated, and everyone is expected to make an impact. New ideas and rigorous debate are commonplace.
- Decentralized but tight-knit: Crypto is geographically distributed – and so are we. But we’re close-knit and our doors (real-life and Zoom-life) are always open. Our teams operate with flexibility and autonomy.
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London
Articles
Leadership
Anton Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Anton previously led trading technology at AQR, held senior roles at Broadway Technology, began his career at Microsoft, and holds a CS degree from MIT.
Ethan Feldman
(Co-Founder & CTO)Ethan previously spent a decade at Broadway Technology, began his career at Microsoft, and holds undergraduate and graduate CS degrees from Cornell.
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