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Market Maker Engineer (Java / Crypto / Low Latency)

Nonco

Nonco

Software Engineering
London, UK
Posted on Jul 2, 2025

As a Market Maker Engineer, you will play a foundational role in designing and developing low latency trading systems for crypto markets. This is a rare opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and shape the architecture of a greenfield system in a fast-moving and highly competitive domain.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and optimize low-latency market making systems using Java.
  • Develop core components including pricing engines, order management systems, and risk controls.
  • Build infrastructure to support quoting, hedging, position tracking, PnL computation, and risk management.
  • Collaborate with traders, and other engineers to translate strategies into performant systems.
  • Own the full software development lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Ensure system performance, reliability, and observability under real-time market conditions.
Required Qualifications
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience developing low-latency trading systems in Java.
  • Deep expertise in concurrent programming, data structures, and networking.
  • Strong knowledge of markets, including how to make markets, hedge risk, compute PnL and positions.
  • Experience with FIX protocol and binary encoding protocols such as Simple Binary Encoding (SBE).
  • Solid understanding of trading system design principles, especially in high-throughput and high-availability environments.
  • Proven ability to work in fast-paced, real-time trading environments.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Aeron Transport, Aeron Archive, or Aeron Cluster.
  • Prior work in crypto markets, including knowledge of exchange APIs and latency-sensitive execution.