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# Senior Back-End Engineer, Trading Platform

- **Company:** gb
Blockchain
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithmic Trading, Unit Testing, C++ (Programming Language), Databases, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, High-Frequency Trading, Python (Programming Language), Network Programming, Risk Management Information Systems, SQL Databases, Multithreading, Backend, Integration Tests, Low Latency
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-backend-engineer/blockchain-job107816003

## About the Role

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., * 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.

## Description

* 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


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