Senior Trading Systems Developer (Electronic Trading)

Job Description

FalconX is seeking a Senior Trading Systems Developer to contribute to the architecture and development of their next-generation Order Management System (OMS) and electronic trading execution platform. This role is central to supporting complex electronic trading workflows, including market making and internalizing flow across high- and low-touch desks. The developer will design and develop scalable, low-latency components resilient under heavy load and tightly integrated with the execution stack and internal trading infrastructure.Role involves:

• Designing and implementing a high-performance OMS and EMS.
• Leading the development of core order lifecycle components.
• Building scalable services using Java and Rust.
• Collaborating with strategy developers, product managers, and infrastructure teams.
• Ensuring system resilience, observability, and recovery.
• Integrating with external market venues and internal trading strategies.
• Driving code quality, testability, and production readiness.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience designing and building distributed trading systems.
• Expertise in Java and Rust for performance-critical systems.
• Experience building or contributing to an OMS or EMS.
• Understanding of order state transitions, event-driven architecture, and low-latency system design.
• Experience with WebSocket, REST, FIX, and OpenSSL.
• Knowledge of market structure, trading workflows, market making, and electronic trading best practices.
• Experience with high-performance messaging frameworks.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments, performance tuning, and system observability.

FalconX offers:

• Opportunity to revolutionize institutional access to crypto markets.
• A diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe workspace.