Backend Software Engineer

Final is a world leader in trading algorithms and trade execution technologies development. Our multi-disciplinary teams have developed a unique and highly successful machine learning algorithmic based HFT platform that delivers excellent results. In a world increasingly dominated by learning machines and artificial intelligence, we at Final are especially proud of our humans. Our elite team of exceptional people are the soul of our company, and it is our top priority to provide them with a professionally fulfilling environment that supports healthy work-life balance. Our employees are encouraged to pursue their passions outside of work and we are proud to offer them a variety of opportunities, multiple resources and an agile work environment which promotes their well-being.

We are searching for a Software Engineer to join our digital assets group, a group within Final tasked with creating solutions for digital assets trading and management. You will be part of a strong and dynamic team of experienced developers and researchers that together develop and maintain all elements of the trading infrastructure, while using cutting edge technologies to overcome our unique trading challenges. 

We write almost all of our tools in the Rust programming language for superior performance and safety.

The role focuses on developing and maintaining an in-house platform that manages, controls and monitors our ever-growing set of tools and applications. The tools you will write and maintain have challenging requirements on all fronts – performance, resilience, correctness and more.

In this role you can expect to challenge yourself daily and be creative to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment, while exposed to a wide range of technologies and challenging problems which require high availability, high-throughput, and latency-sensitive solutions in a cloud environment.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of experience developing backend systems and/or services, in Python or Rust, with a strong preference to distributed systems and database-backed applications and services
• Familiarity with cloud deployment schemes, especially with Kubernetes (AWS/EKS background a plus)
• Familiarity with front-end tools and techniques - Advantage