Senior Specialist Software Engineer
About The Position
Rothera is building the premier prediction market in partnership with Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group. By empowering traders to take positions on the events that shape our world, Rothera’s platform harnesses the scale and power of financial markets to produce timely, unique, and effective information discovery for leaders and decision makers to ask and answer their most important questions. Rothera operates at the frontier, generating market-driven forecasts that turn intuition into insight. As a Senior Specialist Software Engineer, you will help drive the development of our cloud-based scalable architecture that powers our instrument management, settlements engine, and clearing systems. You will work closely with Staff Engineers on architectural decisions while taking full ownership of significant components and features. This role is designed for an experienced engineer who thrives on solving complex technical problems in financial markets, has strong expertise in microservices-based distributed systems, and can deliver production-quality code that operates at scale with reliability and precision.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building high-performance distributed systems.
- Strong Java proficiency, including solid understanding of concurrency, memory management, JVM behavior, and performance optimization.
- Understanding of network protocols and APIs, with experience implementing REST and WebSocket APIs.
- Experience building scalable and HA systems that handle high throughput and low latency in production environments (10k+ msgs/sec, low-millisecond latencies).
- Experience building microservices systems, Kafka and relational databases (PostgreSQL).
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent, indefinite basis.
Nice To Haves
- FIX protocol experience is a strong plus.
- Experience with derivative contracts (futures, options) and financial markets is highly desirable.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the technical design and architecture of Rothera's core instrument management, exchange and clearing infrastructure, collaborating with other engineers on system design decisions.
- Design and implement significant features and components across a distributed microservices architecture for instrument management, settlement calculation, and clearing workflows.
- Implement customer-facing API interfaces using FIX, REST, and WebSocket protocols for programmatic access.
- Build robust, fault-tolerant distributed systems using Kafka for event streaming, Postgres for persistent state, and in-memory data structures for hot path processing.
- Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical implementations and execute.
- Continuously improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents requiring deep technical troubleshooting.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
