About the company
FalconX is the most advanced digital asset platform for institutions. We provide trade execution, credit & treasury management, prime offering and market making services. Given our global operations, industry-leading technology and deep liquidity, we have facilitated client transactions of $1 trillion in volume. Our products & services are regulated, compliant and trusted. We are a team of engineers, product builders, institutional sales and trading leaders, operations experts, and business strategists. Our teammates have entrepreneurial experience and come from companies such as Google, Apple, Paypal, Citadel, Bridgewater, and Goldman Sachs. And, we embody our values: Think big; Drive bold outcomes; Be one team; Iterate with speed; and be an entrepreneur. We prioritize learning. Outcomes are mission-critical, but we also believe that learning in success and in failure will drive our continued success. Our industry is emergent - there’s no shortage of experiments to get involved with and to continue growing and learning together.
Job Summary
Responsibilities
📍 Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team. 📍 Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity. 📍 Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems 📍 Help to define and improve our internal standards for >best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review. 📍 Craft code that meets our internal standards for >practices for a high-scale web environment.
Job requirements
📍 At Least 5 years of experience working in software development with minimum 2 years of working experience in Golang, C++ or Python. 📍 Familiarity and work experience in FIX protocol in production applications. 📍 Familiarity with modern web technologies like AWS cloud, MySQL database, Redis caching, messaging tools like Kafka/SQS etc 📍 Comfort working in a highly agile, intensively iterative software development process. 📍 Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions 📍 Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
