Connectivity Engineer - Venues in London

About Elwood

We have built a digital asset trading infrastructure for institutional investors. Our seamless end-to-end platform connects to global crypto exchanges, custodians, and liquidity providers, via a single Application Programming Interface (API). Built by industry experts with decades of combined experience in investment management and digital technology, Elwood provides market infrastructure at scale, enabling financial institutions, neobanks, and corporations to access digital asset markets quickly and efficiently.

If you're interested in pursuing a career in the world of digital assets, then come and join our Engineering Team based in London where you will contribute to the development of the Trading Platform whilst working closely with the Product Team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and enhance our extensive API based services written in Golang.
• Contribute and encourage API adoption both internally and externally.
• Help write comprehensive end to end feature tests and examples based on the API.
• Support platform integration with Exchanges, Brokers, OTC Platforms.
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to ensure constant improvement and quality assured delivery.
• Monitor and support all production system components.

Required Experience

• 5+ years commercial hands-on software engineering experience.
• Crypto experience with CeFi and/or DeFi platforms.
• Financial Services experience (Buy or Sell-Side).
• Previously designed client-facing APIs.
• Golang expertise or other structured languages (C#, C++, Rust).
• Worked in cloud and containerised environments.
• Proficient in building and using REST, WebSockets, and/or FIX-based APIs.
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent software design and debugging skills.
• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Proven ability to own outcomes and work effectively with others as required to deliver.

Nice to have

• Building performant low-latency systems.
• Performance testing distributed systems.
• Messaging/streaming technologies.
• Execution, order, or portfolio management systems.
• Building monitoring dashboards using technologies such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Values

• Passion - As a Software Engineer, you are passionate about building high-quality, performant services.
• Respect - As part of a diverse team, you have deep cultural empathy and respect for fellow workers, clients, partners, and Elwood’s regulatory obligations.
• Teamwork & Communication - You value cross-team collaboration, effective communication, and efficient processes that deliver best results.
• Tenacity - You know that delivering stable, performant systems takes hard work and persistence and you bring both these qualities to the table every day.
• Trust & Transparency - You are willing to share your knowledge with the rest of the team and aren’t afraid to ask questions to improve your work and progress delivery.
• Excellence - Excellence is a mindset and you strive to be the best version of yourself and expect the same from others. You will have a testing mindset and ruthless focus on delivering quality solutions and value for our clients.

Why Elwood?

• Join one of the fastest growing FinTech companies and help shape the future of finance.
• A startup with deep financial backing and a strong market presence.
• Our platform is enabling institutional access to the most exciting growth opportunity in Finance.
• Work with a modern technology stack and help solve high impact problems.
• Strong client focused team with a diverse background.
• We’re a global company and have offices in New York, Singapore, London.
• Competitive compensation package.
• A hybrid mode of working in office and working from home (minimum 3 days a week in the office).

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunity employer, you can read more about our policy here: https://elwood.io/diversity