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Lead Engineer, Trading Product Engineering

Bullish’s trading engineering team builds the exchange’s order-processing systems. Its platform combines order-book matching with automated liquidity across digital-asset spot and derivatives markets.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Develop low-latency Java trading components
Profile order-processing bottlenecks
Test financial state transitions and system behaviour under load
Coordinate delivery with the distributed engineering team
Mentor engineers and lead technical design

What they ask for

Required

Java 17+
High-throughput low-latency design
Messaging systems
Testing and CI/CD
Docker and Kubernetes
AI-assisted development
Twelve or more years in Java backend engineering
Spot, futures and options knowledge

Preferred

FIX or matching engines
Digital-asset knowledge
TypeScript or GCP

Education: Bachelor qualification in computing or a related technical area.
Experience: 12+ years of Java backend work focused on trading technologies.
Languages and tools: Java
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Docker
Kubernetes
Spring
Micronaut
Markets: crypto, futures, options

How to prepare

Build a tested order-book or matching component
Benchmark Java latency and reason about concurrency
Explain correctness checks for an order-state transition

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