Trading System Architect - Market Making

Our client is a leading financial firm, and they are looking for a Market Making Trading System Architect to drive the development and optimization of its high-performance trading infrastructure. This role involves designing and enhancing a low-latency matching engine, ensuring system scalability, and improving execution efficiency in a high-throughput trading environment. This role can be based in Singapore or open to remote candidates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, optimize, and maintain a high-concurrency, low-latency matching engine for institutional trading.
• Design and implement efficient matching algorithms to ensure fairness, accuracy, and speed.
• Enhance core trading components, including order matching and order book management, for optimal performance.
• Architect and optimize system infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance in a high-throughput trading environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend development experience, with at least 4 years in financial trading systems (e.g., equities, forex, futures).
• Strong expertise in high-performance computing, concurrent programming, and low-latency system design.
• Proficiency in Java (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud) and experience with multithreading, JVM tuning, and system performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, messaging queues, databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis), and caching strategies.
• Familiarity with trading rules, execution mechanisms, and order book management.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) is a plus.
• Prior exposure to crypto, digital assets, or market-making platforms is an advantage.
• Bilingual in English and Mandarin to collaborate with global stakeholders.

Regrettably, only shortlisted candidates will be notified.