Senior Systems Engineer (Trading Infra & Strategy Platform) - PT/FT - NA/LATAM/EU

Trading Infrastructure & Strategy Platform

Overview

We are seeking a senior, full-stack systems engineer to architect and own our automated trading platform end-to-end.

This is not a feature development role. You will design and build institutional-grade trading infrastructure from first principles - including real-time data systems, strategy execution frameworks, risk controls, and production deployment pipelines.

You are responsible for the core engine.

What You’ll Own

1. Core Trading Engine Architecture

• Real-time data ingestion (order books, trades, news, social feeds)
• Event-driven signal pipelines (momentum, statistical relationships, probability-based trades)
• Strategy orchestration and execution logic
• Modular, platform-agnostic system design adaptable to new venues and liquidity shifts

2. Research & Backtesting Framework

• Robust backtesting infrastructure
• Simulation of transaction costs, slippage, and latency
• Strategy validation and performance attribution tooling
• Seamless path from research to production deployment

3. Portfolio & Risk Infrastructure

• Portfolio construction logic
• Position caps and exposure aggregation
• Drawdown monitoring and kill-switch mechanisms
• Embedded real-time risk controls across strategies

4. Production & Reliability

• Production-grade backend systems
• Observability, logging, and monitoring
• CI/CD pipelines for strategy deployment
• Infrastructure resilience and fault tolerance
• Cloud-native deployment and scaling

Required Experience

• 7+ years building backend or distributed systems
• Strong Python (or equivalent) for quantitative research and system logic
• Experience designing and operating automated trading systems
• Deep understanding of order books, execution logic, and market microstructure
• Expertise in async processing, event-driven systems, and concurrency
• Strong database design (relational + time-series preferred)
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or equivalent)
• Experience building systems that balance performance, reliability, and risk

What Makes You a Fit

• You think in systems, not features
• You’ve built infrastructure that runs unattended in production
• You design for failure, latency, and scale
• You embed risk controls at the architectural level
• You are comfortable owning both research tooling and production execution layers

What This Role Is Not

• Not a UI role
• Not a single-strategy quant role
• Not a plug-and-play bot integration project
• Not a maintenance position
• This is a foundational build of a trading platform intended to operate at institutional standards.

Success Looks Like

• A modular, extensible trading infrastructure
• Strategies that move cleanly from research to live deployment
• Real-time risk visibility and enforced exposure controls
• Stable, observable, and scalable production systems