Backend Software Engineer, SFOX
Trading Infrastructure
Cryptocurrency prime dealer for institutional investors
Open for applications
Cryptocurrency prime dealer for institutional investors
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build technology that makes it easier to access cryptocurrency.
Role
Who you are
- An ideal candidate is someone with hands-on experience designing and implementing trading systems in the traditional finance or crypto trading industry using technologies like Golang, C#, or Java
- Proven expertise in designing and implementing trading systems, whether in traditional finance or in the cryptocurrency ecosystem
- Deep knowledge of Order types and routing, exchange management and systems performance is required
- Experience building high performance, low latency distributed trading systems
- 8-10 years of hands on software engineering - Golang expertise is desirable, but equivalent frameworks such as C# and Java are applicable
- Self-starter, capable of handling projects from the idea phase all the way into customers' hands and beyond
- You take pride in code quality and test infrastructure while prioritizing execution speed, security, and the end-user experience over "cool tech."
Desirable
- You have a passion for cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies
- Data manipulation - SQL and Snowflake is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on our Trading Infrastructure team, you will help us develop scalable infrastructure that processes millions of orders each day while providing cutting edge services to high-end financial customers
- Work on features to increase the speed and functionality of our trading infrastructure: whether it's new trading algorithms, exchange integrations, performance improvements, or new features for the platform
- Play an active role in helping our CTO office influence system architecture and roadmap
- Collaborate with our Product Management team to form a plan of attack for a new features, optimize performance of services and write tests
- Grow to become an expert in understanding our entire trading systems and all associated services
- Use deductive reasoning to solve complex problems that potentially exist beyond the scope of your local environment
Our take
SFOX (San Francisco Open Exchange) is a cryptocurrency prime dealer that enables traders to access global crypto markets with one account. Unlike the wealthy consumer-facing products for private trading, SFOX focuses on professional traders and institutional investors, offering higher returns when trading large volumes.
Rather than acting as an exchange in its own right, SFOX helps high volume traders to buy and sell orders by executing them through its integrations with over 30 cryptocurrency exchanges. Despite the current downtown in crypto markets following the FTX collapse, SFOX is seeing an increase in business as institutional traders seek safer and more tax compliant ways to navigate the digital assets marketplace.
SFOX was part of Y Combinator's 2014 batch, and is led by an experienced team of operators. It has not been shy about attracting talent from top institutions, especially targeting engineering and legal professionals to further develop its product and ensure compliance with increasing regulations on the crypto space.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2018
$22.7m
SERIES A
Jul 2014
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $22.9m
Company benefits
- Remote-first culture - work from where you are
- Unlimited PTO - take time off when you need it
- Paid holidays and company-wide wellness days off
- Health/dental/vision/life insurance and flexible spending accounts available for you and your family
Company HQ
Stanford, CA
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Leadership
Akbar Thobhani
(Chairman)Having taken an MBA at MIT, Akbar worked as Director of Product Management at BOKU, before co-founding PlayPass and working at Airbnb for 4 years. They then co-founded SFOX in 2014, serving as CEO since.
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