Senior Back-End Engineer, Trading Platform

Blockchain.com · London · Engineering

Posted 2026-05-14

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We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to join our Institutional team in our London office. Blockchain.com is a high-performance culture marked by fearlessness and hyper productivity. You are a hardworking team player with a desire to learn and grow with us, someone who can work harder, faster, and smarter to deliver tangible results and process improvements.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Build low latency, scalable and highly performant trading services in RUST including Order Management System (OMS), exchange gateways, risk management systems, etc.

Enhance and maintain OMS functionality, ensuring efficient order execution, routing, and management in a high-frequency trading environment.

Be a part of a  fast-paced dedicated engineering team committed to constantly improving and iterating on cutting edge systems

Be at the forefront of the cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem building out a new set of financial services, systems and architecture.

Gain exposure to an array of low latency, high throughput techniques and algorithms.

Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do, employing advanced encryption schemes to secure user and company data.

Work closely with the other tech teams to seamlessly deliver the highest quality products and improve performance across the board

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

You possess an innate curiosity, and thrive on learning new technologies.

Extensive experience in C++ and/or Rust

Experience with Python and SQL.

Experience in one or more of the following programming areas:

Multithreading

Network programming, including multicast

Performance benchmarking and tuning

Extreme interest in delivering high quality software. This means that testing is embedded in the development process from the very beginning, from coding stage (unit testing), to integration testing (local and end to end integration testing), to performance (load and capacity) testing and finally, to failure recovery testing. Software engineers are fully involved in the testing process, driving much of the testing at all stages.

Experience in trading systems architecture: Familiarity with Order Management Systems (OMS), exchange gateway connectivity, market data ingestion and processing, as well as high-throughput, low-latency systems.

You take a pragmatic approach to developing clean solutions to complex problems.

Basic understanding of algorithms, data structures, databases and distributed systems is must.

COMPENSATION & PERKS

Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company

Role based in our London office, with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week

Work from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.

ClassPass

Budgets for learning & professional development

Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it

Apple equipment

The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field

Flexible work culture

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