FalconX-posted 3 months ago
$179,000 - $242,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
New York City, NY
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

FalconX is a digital asset brokerage and trading platform that connects institutional investors to the global crypto markets. We're bridging the gap between traditional finance and digital assets through world-class infrastructure, high-performance trading systems, and an unwavering focus on reliability, scale, and innovation. As a market leader serving hedge funds, asset managers, and financial institutions, we are building a next-generation platform for high- and low-touch trading workflows across spot, derivatives, and structured products.

  • Design and implement a high-performance OMS for institutional trading workflow and EMS for electronic trading strategies and internalization engines.
  • Lead the development of core order lifecycle components: order entry, modification, routing, risk checks, and state management.
  • Build scalable services using Java and Rust, optimized for latency and throughput.
  • Collaborate with strategy developers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to deliver flexible and extensible trading systems.
  • Ensure system resilience, observability, and recovery in distributed, high-availability environments.
  • Integrate with external market venues and internal trading strategies using WebSocket, REST, and FIX APIs.
  • Drive code quality, testability, and production readiness through CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting best practices.
  • 5+ years of experience designing and building distributed trading systems.
  • Expertise in Java (11+) and Rust for performance-critical systems. C++ a plus.
  • Experience building or significantly contributing to an Order Management System (OMS) or Execution Management System (EMS).
  • Solid understanding of order state transitions, event-driven architecture, and low-latency system design.
  • Experience with WebSocket, REST, FIX, and OpenSSL at the protocol level.
  • Knowledge of market structure, trading workflows (high- and low-touch), market making, and electronic trading best practices.
  • Experience with high-performance messaging frameworks (e.g., Aeron, Chronicle, ZeroMQ, Kafka).
  • Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and memory management.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native environments, performance tuning, and system observability.
  • Prior experience in crypto markets or electronic trading in traditional finance.
  • Experience integrating OMS with strategy containers, risk engines, or smart order routers.
  • Knowledge of FIX protocol nuances and connectivity to major exchanges.
  • Exposure to container orchestration, service mesh, or hybrid deployment architectures.
  • Performance linked bonus
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits package
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