Backend Software Engineer Intern, Talos Trading
$50.00 per hour
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Institutional digital asset trading infrastructure
Open for applications
Institutional digital asset trading infrastructure
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$50.00 per hour
More information about location
5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be the bridge connecting institutions to the digital assets market, and to deliver the most pioneering and trusted end-to-end trading lifecycle platform there is.
Role
Who you are
- Class of 2026 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
- Preferred Locations: New York
What the job involves
- Talos is seeking a Backend Software Engineering Intern to join our Trading team for the Summer 2025
- 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
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 they’re developing the market of an entirely new asset-class, progress is accelerated and competition may have a chance to overtake.
Promising for Talos was the interest of prominent investors like PayPal and Fidelity during their Series A funding round, with the funds being used to create an institutional-grade service to help them both shape and spearhead this developing market. More recently, the company has made a number of significant partnerships, and also acquired D3X Systems, the integration of which will allow its clients to design, validate, implement and manage highly customized portfolios.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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
- Remote and flexible working
- Global offsites and team outings
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
West Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Anton Katz
(CEO & Co-Founder)Having served in the Israeli Defense Forces for 3 years, Anton worked at Microsoft in Program Management for almost 2 years and Broadway Technology for a further 6. In September 2018, he left his role as Head of Trading Technology at AQR Capital Management to co-found Talos Trading.
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