Job Specifications
Flowdesk's mission is to build a global financial institution for digital assets, one designed from the ground up for market integrity and efficiency. To achieve this in a rapidly evolving market, we apply a disciplined, first-principles approach to everything we do.
This approach is embedded in our core services, from institutional liquidity provision, trading solutions, OTC execution to our comprehensive treasury management offerings. This is how we cut through the noise and build robust and scalable systems across all our business lines.
We seek individuals who are driven by this systematic approach. Joining Flowdesk means you will be a key contributor in building and scaling a more transparent and efficient financial markets infrastructure.
Flowdesk is scaling fast, and behind every world-class trading operation is a core engineering team who provide the single source of truth and a scalable platform for business units to leverage. We're hiring a Core Engineer to join the team and help lead the design and delivery of a new internal platform.
Mission
Be a key player in the newly formed Core Engineering team at Flowdesk to build a world class back office system which will serve as the backbone for Flowdesk's systems. Work alongside a seasoned team with deep product, buy-side, and sell-side experience in both Crypto and TradFi.
Responsibilities
Tasks
Exchange Integrations - Gather all required information from centralised exchanges to run an accurate and real time back office system. You will own the entire process from analysing requirements, specifying the work to be done, implementation and support after go-live in production.
Core Booking / Aggregation - Implement and enhance features in the core booking and aggregation engine (Realised / Unrealised P&L, Balances etc) ensuring performance, reliability and correctness.
Reconciliation - Automate reconciliation of all trading and treasury activity across the firm implementing data feeds from internal systems, banking, exchanges and custodians.
Reporting - Work closely with the Finance and other internal users to gather and refine requirements, plan milestones, demo progress, and coordinate cutovers from manual / legacy workflows.
Data products and APIs - Expose well-versioned APIs and event streams for downstream consumers; maintain backward compatibility and schema evolution.
Ways of working
Follow established architecture and coding standards, participate in RFCs/design reviews and propose incremental improvements within existing patterns.
Write clean, well-documented code and meaningful tests.
Contribute to PR reviews, maintain up-to-date technical docs and diagrams.
Own components end-to-end from spec to production support.
Requirements
Must Haves - Experience
Lifecycle knowledge of crypto asset classes, spot, perpetuals, futures, and options.
Hands-on integration with centralized exchange APIs. (e.g. Binance, OKX, Bybit, Coinbase).
Proven track record delivering scalable, reliable systems in production.
Comfortable partnering with internal stakeholders across Trading, Ops, Compliance, and Engineering.
Must Haves - Technical
Strong OO background in one or more, Go, C++, C#, Java or Rust.
Experience with Typescript and Python.
API design (versioning, backwards compatibility, observability).
Postgres schema design and query optimization.
Experience with message queue / pub-sub systems.
Familiarity with cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure), modern CI/CD and containerization.
Nice-to-Haves - Experience
Built or maintained position-keeping / accounting systems (PnL, accounting methods, pricing, greeks).
Centralized reference data platforms (assets, networks, instruments), consistent symbology and instrument economics.
Trading, risk, or back-office systems, ideally in regulated environments.
Benefits
International environment (English is the main language)
Pension
100% health coverage
Team events and offsites
Recruitment Process
HR interview (30')
Technical interview - Hiring Manager (30')
Take home assignment + Live coding session (90')
Team Member Technical (45')
CTO (45")
Chat with the Head of People (30')
About the Company
Founded in 2020, Flowdesk is a regulated, full-service digital asset trading and technology firm that specializes in market making, OTC, and treasury management services.
With offices globally, we have engineered a trading infrastructure that integrates more than 120 centralized and decentralized exchanges. Combining proprietary technology with significant experience from traditional markets and algorithmic trading, Flowdesk brings control and transparency to digital asset markets.
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