At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and operation of connectivity solutions across multiple venues.
- Company: Dynamic firm at the forefront of crypto and traditional finance integration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working hours, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Mentorship opportunities and a collaborative environment await you.
- Why this job: Join a cutting-edge team and shape the future of connectivity in finance.
- Qualifications: Extensive experience in crypto feed handling and low-latency Rust development.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Responsibilities Owning the design, build, and operation of feed handlers across all connected venues.
Leading connectivity go-lives: planning, staging, testing, cutover, and post-launch support.
Debugging complex production connectivity issues across exchange protocols and internal systems.
Setting technical standards for how the team approaches exchange integration.
Mentoring engineers working on connectivity components.
Contributing to HFT infrastructure where connectivity and execution overlap.
Requirements Extensive crypto feed handler experience across multiple venues in production at an institutional firm - not experimental or internal-only.
Deep understanding of market data feed handling, order lifecycle management, and multi-feed aggregation.
Minimum of 2+ years of solid technical Rust experience, across sync and async code.
Demonstrable experience of low-latency Rust development, at the very least 5+ years of C++ experience in a low latency environment.
Strong understanding of networking protocols down the stack: HTTP, WS, TCP/IP Understanding of the full go-live cycle: from integration and UAT through to production cutover and ongoing support.
Proven experience leading multiple venue migrations end-to-end, from cutover planning and parallel-run testing through to full decommission of legacy connectivity, including managing rollback procedures and minimising trading disruption during transition.
Experience managing exchange-driven changes (EDC), upgrade lifecycles, and rapid go-live pressures.
Experience with AI-first development workflows and AI harness engineering and quality assurance.
Some leadership experience: technical lead, team lead, or similar.
This person needs to be able to set direction, not just execute.
AI-native experience and AI harness engineering - delivered AI code generation workflows in production.
Experience managing a team or squad of connectivity engineers.
Experience across both Trad Fi and crypto connectivity (FIX, ITCH, OUCH, Web Socket, proprietary).
Experience with ultra-low-latency development (kernel-bypass, zero-copy). #J-18808-Ljbffr
