Senior Trading Systems Engineer

BHFT is a proprietary algorithmic trading firm. Our team manages the full trading cycle, from software development to creating and coding strategies and algorithms.

Our trading operations cover key exchanges. The firm trades across a broad range of asset classes, including equities, equity derivatives, options, commodity futures, rates futures, etc. We employ a diverse and growing array of algorithmic trading strategies, utilizing both High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Medium-Frequency Trading (MFT) approaches.

Looking ahead, we are expanding into new markets and products. As a dynamic company, we continuously experiment with new markets, tools, and technologies.

We’ve got a team of 200+ professionals, with a strong emphasis on technology—70% are technical specialists in development, infrastructure, testing, and analytics spheres. The remaining part of the team supports our business operations, such as Risks, Compliance, Legal, Operations and more.

With a strong focus on innovation and performance, BHFT is actively expanding its presence in traditional financial markets. We value a results-driven culture, emphasizing collaboration, transparency, and constant improvement, all while offering the flexibility of remote work and a globally distributed team.

We’re hiring a Senior Trading Systems Engineer. You’ll harden our exchange connectors (WebSocket / REST / FIX / Binary), reduce tail latency, troubleshoot production issues, and work closely with traders and quants to keep our market-making and latency-arbitrage systems reliable and competitive.

You will dissect and optimize complex trading systems in low-latency crypto environments — analyzing live behavior, identifying performance bottlenecks, and challenging design choices across algorithms, exchange connectors, and platform components.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct deep-dive investigations into trading behavior and system performance.

• Optimize exchange connectors (WebSocket / REST / FIX / Binary) for reliability and latency.

• Reduce tail latency and improve determinism across trading pipelines.

• Investigate production incidents and perform thorough root-cause analysis.

• Identify and resolve issues in algorithmic logic, execution flow, and connector behavior.

• Analyze order books, packet captures, and latency distributions to improve trading outcomes.

• Review and challenge platform architecture and low-latency design decisions.

• Collaborate with traders, developers, and infrastructure engineers to maintain optimal trading performance.

• Contribute to postmortems, debugging frameworks, and continuous improvements in trading strategies and infrastructure.

• 5+ years of experience in trading systems, exchange technology, or low-latency infrastructure (crypto experience preferred).
• Hands-on experience with market making and/or latency arbitrage.

• Deep understanding of order books, matching engines, snapshots and incremental market data feeds, sequence-recovery mechanisms, and feed-arbitrage practices.

• Experience working with exchange connectors, pcap/tcpdump analysis, and production postmortems.

• Proficiency in Python for tooling, debugging, and performance analysis.

Will be a plus

• Low-latency engineering experience in C++, Rust, C#, or Java.

• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals (kernel behavior, TCP, packet flow, performance tuning).

What we offer:

• Working in a modern international technology company without bureaucracy, legacy systems, or technical debt.
• Excellent opportunities for professional growth and self-realization.
• We work remotely from anywhere in the world, with a flexible schedule.
• We offer compensation for health insurance, sports activities, and professional training.