Staff Engineer, Trading Automation and Backend Platforms

You will join Flow Traders as a senior individual contributor leading the architectural and technical direction for the Trading Automation and Backend Engineering teams. Operating across the full trade lifecycle spanning pre-trade, execution, and post-trade, you will bridge the gap between engineering, trading, and operations. You will tackle ambiguous, large-scale problems, set global engineering standards, and scale your impact by mentoring tech leads and engineers across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term technical architecture for trading automation, risk, and post-trade platforms
• Translate complex, ambiguous business problems into clear, executable technical roadmaps
• Architect scalable, event-driven systems optimized for high throughput, data integrity, and reliability
• Elevate engineering standards across the organization, focusing on system design, observability, reliability, and scalability
• Mentor senior engineers, guide tech leads, and drive technical alignment across fragmented systems
• Lead efforts to responsibly decommission legacy systems in favor of modern, scalable services
• Partner closely with trading, quant, risk, and operations teams to align technical choices with business value
• Drive automation in post-trade and middle-office workflows such as allocations, settlements, and reconciliations to reduce operational risk

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or cross-team Lead level
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and drive consensus across multiple teams
• Deep expertise in building distributed, high-performance, and highly reliable backend systems
• Strong proficiency in at least one core backend language such as Python, Go, C++, or Java
• Experience with event-driven architectures such as Kafka, Flink, Databricks, Dataproc and data pipelines
• Solid understanding of modern infrastructure, observability, and cloud platforms
• Deep knowledge of specific financial workflows such as ETF creation/redemption, clearing, custody (nice to have)
• Experience with financial reference data, symbology, or instrument modeling (nice to have)
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR and their data lineage requirements (nice to have)
• Solid background in financial services, trading, or market making (nice to have)
• Strong working knowledge of the trading lifecycle including order flow, execution, and post-trade/settlement flows (nice to have)

Benefits

• Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
• In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
• Company boat
• In-house gym and sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer
• Bi-weekly massages
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event
• Global rotations across offices worldwide
• Annual discretionary profit share
• Comprehensive benefits