Engineer, Engineering

About Bullish Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include: Bullish Exchange - a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar. CoinDesk Indices - a col

Bullish - Mongkok, Hong Kong - Full time

Salary: Competitive

About Bullish
Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include: Bullish Exchange - a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar. CoinDesk Indices - a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries. CoinDesk Data - a broad suite of digital assets market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics. CoinDesk Insights - a digital asset media and events provider and operator of Coindesk.com, a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy, and blockchain technology.

Reports to:
Director, Engineering

Role & Responsibilities:
  • Design, build, and maintain high performance and low latency systems at the core of the exchange.
  • Build and architect the infrastructure and the services required for optimal extraction, transformation, ingestion and fan out of the data in and from the exchange.
  • Continuously identify cost optimisations and functional/non-functional issues through test automation, and performance profiling.
  • Understand the business logic and the end to end data workflows across the business. This includes but not limited to regulatory requirements in terms of performance and system guarantees.
  • Work in close coordination with upstream and downstream system engineering teams, product teams, and business teams.
  • Maintain code quality, organization, and best practices.
  • Work as part of a Global (Hong Kong, Singapore, USA) team.

Experience & Qualifications:
  • Computer Science or related degree with 10+ years of experience, preferably in the fintech sector.
  • High expertise of the Java language, including but not limited to high performance, low latency, 0 garbage techniques and concurrency.
  • Hands-on experience with middleware such as Chronicle Queue, Aeron and Kafka.
  • Well versed in data structures and their real world applications.
  • Solid and opinionated knowledge of testing methodologies.
  • Solid and opinionated knowledge of coding principles and coding standards.
  • Well versed with standard SDLC practices and tooling around build, test, deploy etc.
  • Hands on with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
  • Ability to operate and thrive in a dynamic startup environment.
  • Passionate about knowledge sharing and mentoring.
  • Eligibility to work in Hong Kong.

Bonus Experience:
  • Hands-on experience working with cloud technologies.
  • Familiarity with REST API, Kubernetes, Istio and Docker.
  • Financial domain knowledge in particular - market making, market data, sequenced architectures

Bullish is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are fast evolving and striving towards being a globally-diverse community. With integrity at our core, our success is driven by a talented team of individuals and the different perspectives they are encouraged to bring to work every day.
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