About the company
Wintermute is one of the largest crypto-native algorithmic trading companies in digital assets. We provide liquidity algorithmically across most cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, a broad range of OTC trading products as well as support high profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto. We actively participate in the development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments, partnerships, and incubation of projects. Wintermute was founded in 2017 by industry leaders and has successfully navigated multiple crypto industry cycles. Culturally, we combine the best of the two worlds: the technology standards of high-frequency trading firms in traditional markets and the innovative and entrepreneurial culture of technology startups. Read more here.
Job Summary
Key responsibilities:
📍Own production stability and incident response for the OTC Trading platform during US market hours 📍Technically onboard and support counterparties integrating via FIX-API into the platform. 📍Own and drive the counterparty integration pipeline, actively managing onboarding timelines, unblocking integrations, and ensuring counterparties progress efficiently from testing to production. 📍Guide counterparties through the FIX conformance testing process, ensuring message formats, session handling, and workflows meet platform requirements. 📍Gather feedback from trading partners on API usability, integration performance, latency, and onboarding experience, turning insights into improvements for product and engineering roadmaps. 📍Act as the first point of escalation for platform incidents, performance degradation, and infrastructure issues, delivering clear communication and timely status updates during outages or performance degradation. 📍Drive rapid triage, mitigation, and root‑cause analysis of production issues 📍Collaborate with London and Singapore DevOps teams. 📍Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across trading systems 📍Support smooth, reliable, and efficient deployments and releases across the trading platform. 📍Automate operational workflows to reduce manual intervention 📍Contribute to runbooks, incident postmortems, and operational best practices 📍Partner with business development, product, engineering, trading, and compliance teams to support platform growth.
Required experience and skills
📍5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles 📍Experience communicating with external counterparties. FIX protocol, SQL 📍Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, latency, packet loss) Solid scripting skills (Python) 📍Strong experience supporting low‑latency, or high‑availability systems 📍Hands‑on expertise with Linux production environments 📍Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) 📍Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana) 📍Excellent communication skills and experience working across global, distributed team
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