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 across the full trade lifecycle. You will tackle ambiguous, large-scale problems, set global engineering standards, and mentor 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
• Nice-to-have knowledge of financial workflows including ETF creation/redemption, clearing, and custody
• Nice-to-have experience with financial reference data, symbology, or instrument modeling
• Nice-to-have familiarity with MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR and data lineage requirements
• Nice-to-have background in financial services, trading, or market making
• Nice-to-have working knowledge of the trading lifecycle including order flow, execution, and post-trade/settlement flows

Benefits

• Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Daily catered lunch, coffee, and stocked kitchen and snack bar
• In-house bar and lounge with games
• Company boat
• In-house gym and sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer
• Bi-weekly massages
• Annual company trip and other events
• Global rotations across offices worldwide
• Annual discretionary profit share
• Comprehensive benefits