Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Engineer you’ll be surrounded by smart and motivated colleagues with complimentary skillsets, offering a great platform for you to contribute ideas, commit code and help the team achieve tangible results.

What you'll be doing

Working as a part of a broader trading platform development team, you will:

• Design, build and maintain a highly performant, highly available adaptive trading platform providing access to a broad range of CeFi, DeFi and OTC liquidity sources.
• Use software development methodologies to implement and extend order management, compliance, exchange connectivity, market data, and routing functionality.
• Design and implement our next-generation real-time trading platform.
• Manage and support the operation of our global trading system, troubleshooting and debugging issues.
• Work closely with traders and the business development department to implement new ideas swiftly.
• Mentor less experienced team members, act as a role model and support their professional growth.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experienced in implementing infrastructure components facilitating high volume, low latency trading within a prop trading firm or hedge fund.
• Track record of building highly performant, distributed and optimised (high throughput and/or low latency) systems in C# or modern C++ (>= 11) in a modern Linux environment.
• Outcome focused - able to balance speed to market and building highly available and robust platforms.
• Exposure to meta programming, Git, CI/CD, unit/integration testing, Kafka, FIX, Cloud
• Proactive communicator, willing to voice opinions but able to disagree and commit
• Knowledge of OMS/PMS platforms, exchange connectivity or high volume OTC trading would be advantageous.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Participation in company bonus pool
• Daily catered lunch
• Health insurance and wellness benefits
• Unlimited vacation policy

About Caladan

Caladan is a principal trading firm specializing in digital assets. We support exchanges, tokens, and institutional investors with market-making, tailored API liquidity, OTC options, and investments. Founded in 2017, we have traded continuously through every market cycle, powering over $170B in annual volume across 1000+ assets.