Wincent
Software Engineer - Trading Core Team
Europe, Remote. Posted 8 months ago
The role
The Trading Core Team builds high-performance systems to fetch data from crypto exchanges and maintains execution engines. You will work on data retrieval, order entry, and data normalization using Rust.
What you will do
- Build high-performance systems to fetch data from multiple crypto exchanges
- Employ techniques for fast order entry on every venue
- Normalise and standardise raw data to create a consistent format
- Monitor the live system's performance and correctness as part of on-call rotation
Required qualifications
- 5+ years in system design, performance tuning, and low-level optimization
- Ability to capture and analyze data
- Teamwork, communication, and collaboration
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and performance optimization
- Ability to own your agenda and deliver results
- Say things as they are, answer questions truthfully, leave ego at the door, challenge decisions when you disagree, and commit to final decisions
Benefits
- Competitive, above-market compensation
- Bonus tied to individual excellence and fund performance
- Equity
- Opportunity to invest in the flagship multi-strategy fund
- Relocation support
- Flexible working time
- Unlimited paid vacation
Before you apply
- Introductory call
- Online assessment: Algorithmic coding challenge
- Technical screening: Interview with one of our engineers
- Technical interview: Live coding and communication assessment
- System Design interview
About the company
Wincent is developing a next-generation trading platform that executes orders across 10+ exchanges and dozens of tokens. The team includes builders from Amazon and Google with academic backgrounds from Berkeley, Caltech, ETH, and MIT.