FalconX is building the world's smartest institutional brokerage for digital assets. Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. FalconX addresses this by operating as a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever-evolving cryptocurrency landscape.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in Python or Go.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, MySQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, and Kubernetes, with an understanding of trade-offs across technologies.
- Strong grasp of systems fundamentals: concurrency, multithreading, and multiprocessing.
- Experience building and operating high-scale, high-availability systems.
- Clear written and verbal communication around technical design and trade-offs.
- Comfort working in a fast, iterative development environment.
- Knowledge of derivatives products: options, exotic options, futures, perpetual swaps, structured products.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve derivatives systems, infrastructure, and processes.
- Architect scalable and performant services for high-throughput institutional trading.
- Partner with product, platform, frontend, and data teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Debug, optimize, and harden transactional systems under load.
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.
- Break down complex work for junior engineers, review designs, and provide technical mentorship.
- Continuously identify technical debt and implement improvements with long-term maintainability in mind.
Other
- The base pay for this role is expected to be between $XX-XX USD for a [Manager] level and $XX-XX for a [Senior Manager] level in the New York City and San Francisco Bay Area.
- This role will also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance linked bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
- Actual compensation for a successful candidate will be determined based on a number of factors such as location, skillset, experience, qualifications and the level at which the candidate is hired.
- Prior experience at an early-stage product startup.
- FalconX is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe workspace for all people.
