Software Engineer Intern, Talos
Backend, Trading
3+ days a week in office
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets
Open for applications
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets
101-200 employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Talos provides 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
- Class of 2027 pursuing a degree in Computer Science or related field
- Proficiency in at least one compiled language (e.g., Go, C++, Java)
- At least one previous internship involving working on backend systems in a production environment, preferably in a user-facing context
- Knowledge of relational databases (e.g Postgres)
- Past experience with trading systems is a plus
- Detail-oriented, self driven, analytical, and enthusiastic about working on impactful projects
- Strong communication skills, with an ability to convey technical concepts clearly
- Ability to work autonomously as well as a part of a collaborative team environment
- Energetic, creative, and a self-starter who can manage tasks autonomously
- Local to London HQ
What the job involves
- Talos is seeking a Backend Software Engineering Intern to join our Trading team for the Summer 2026
- This intern will work on a critical project related to our high-performance trading systems, contributing to tools that support trading decision-making and performance evaluation
- Success in this role will involve designing and building components that enhance our algorithmic capabilities while adding new features to existing infrastructure
- Collaborate with the Trading team to define project scope, requirements, and milestones
- Prepare design documentation and actively participate in architectural discussions with team members
- Build features in Go to enhance Talos's Order Management System (OMS), which is responsible for making all trading related decisions for orders submitted into Talos to ensure best execution
- Add analytics and metrics to measure impact of your changes while incorporating feedback and iterating based on team input
- Demonstrate project progress through regular demos
Salary benchmarks
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 3 rounds)
May 2022
$105m
SERIES B
May 2021
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $151m
Company benefits
- Pension
- Bonus and stock ownership plan
- Medical, dental, vision, and flexible spending
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible working
- Global offsites and team outings
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London
Articles
Leadership
Anton Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Anton Katz is CEO of Talos. He 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 Feldman is CTO of Talos. He 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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