Senior Software Engineer, FalconX
Credit Risk
$156-224.5k
Plus performance linked bonus and equity
Digital asset trading platform
Open for applications
Digital asset trading platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$156-224.5k
Plus performance linked bonus and equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the connective tissue for open, permission-less, and truly global digital assets to be adopted by mainstream institutions at scale.
Role
Who you are
- At Least 5 years of experience working in software development with minimum 2 years of working experience in Python or any other object oriented programming language
- Domain knowledge in institutional financial services, lending and borrowing products
- Familiarity with modern web technologies like AWS cloud, MySQL database, Redis caching, messaging tools like Kafka/SQS, Kubernetes etc and good understanding of trade-offs with one technology vs another
- Have a good understanding of object oriented design patterns to make sure the codebase is maintainable and extensible
- Have a good understanding of operating systems concepts like multi-threading, multi-processing
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensively iterative software development process
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
Desirable
- Strong familiarity with credit: this includes, but is not limited to, customer-side credit lending and firm-side borrowing, margin lending, credit risk (loss probability and recoveries), balance sheet usage, and cash flow modeling
- Candidates with a strong computer science background. Bachelor's degree in computer science
- Experience with frontend technologies like react, javascript
- Experience working in an early stage product startups
What the job involves
- Develop, maintain and enhance FalconX’s proprietary credit management systems, infrastructure, data, and processes
- Architect and build scalable, robust, performant credit solutions for institutional clients and internal teams
- Work with cross-functional teams (product, platform, frontend, data) to build end-to-end solutions driving the credit business
- Experience with building transactional, performant systems at large scale, and ability to diagnose and prevent these problems
- Write well tested readable code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices
- Work with junior team members to breakdown tasks, help in technical solutioning and unblock them when they are stuck
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team
- Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and
- Best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for
- These standards through code review
Our take
FalconX is driving the decentralized financial future with its digital asset trading platform, catering specifically to institutional users. Offering a suite of tools, from trade execution to market making and credit management, FalconX simplifies crypto strategy management through a unified interface.
Renowned institutions like Accel and Tiger Global have adopted FlaconX, recognizing it as a leader in the space. Notably, the company earned the prestigious FinTech Breakthrough's 2023 DeFi Innovation Award for its FalconX 60 platform, a testament to its pioneering role in digital investment and risk management.
As institutional demand for crypto assets surges in the Asia-Pacific region, FalconX is expanding its footprint into Hong Kong. The company's decision to offer over-the-counter brokerage and crypto derivatives services aligns with the region's growing interest in virtual assert innovation and regulatory advancements. With a commitment to innovation and a proactive approach to expansion, FalonX is well-positioned to further solidify its position as a leading player in the digital asset trading space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$150m
SERIES D
Aug 2021
$210m
SERIES C
Total funding: $427m
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
Raghu Yarlagadda
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder and CTO at Sarada Educational Institutions. Former Advisory Board Member at JoyUp, and Product Lead at eightfold.ai.
Prabhakar Reddy
(Co-Founder)Previously an Investor with Accel Partners, Partner at Singularity Ventures, and CEO at Dramatize. Also co-founded and was CEO of nFusion.
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