About the company
BitMEX is the world’s leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, which has pioneered cryptocurrency trading through relentless commitment to change, and continues to set benchmarks for innovation, liquidity, and security today. As the world's most advanced peer-to-peer crypto-products trading platform and API, BitMEX gives knowledge, confidence, and precision to hundreds of thousands of traders, transacting billions of USD a day. Join us, as we build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem through strategic investments in emerging cryptocurrency technology, and create the future of digital financial services.
Job Summary
The Trading and Market Data team is responsible for producing, and providing access, to the vast amount of BitMEX trading-related data and market data. This is via APIs for both internal and external clients. BitMEX’s clients make thousands of queries per second to a rich data set of both public and private trading data, including real time position, order book information and time-series based execution and order data. The team provides a flexible and performant API for clients to efficiently access this data. The team also builds and maintains the firm’s Market Data infrastructure, including market data feed handlers, data capture and storage and analytics for various cryptocurrency exchanges, and also calculates the realtime index prices used to value client positions. Responsibilities Design, development, maintenance and support of fault-tolerant, containerised distributed systems of microservices, for the writing and reading of exchange data Provide services to both internal and external clients, such as new products, support tooling, analysis tooling. This is a rapidly moving environment with a varied and expanding product line Evaluation of new technologies Collaboration with peers, internal and external users on technical design and direction Act as a senior technical resource to junior engineers Qualifications Have a Computer Science/Engineering degree 10+ years of writing Java components in a distributed fault tolerant environment. Integration with data sources, such as relational databases and messaging middleware. Comfortable with TDD/BDD, with a good appreciation of clean coding principles Spring Rest services, to extract/insert data from databases Strong engineering skill set with firm grasp of fundamental Computer Science principles Work in a Linux/containerised environment and have experience tuning it Collaborate across time zones/team boundaries to engineer best possible outcome Ability to adapt to changing priorities within a fast moving industry and startup culture Nice to have: Experience with algorithmic trading Exposure to Data Warehousing solution, specifically AWS/RDS PostgreSQL Python Experience in the finance industry An interest in the crypto trading space
