Exchange Software Engineer

Bitnomial is building the next generation US-based global derivatives exchange starting with digital assets and progressively expanding to encompass a full spectrum of commodities worldwide. Bitnomial operates a US CFTC regulated exchange (DCM) clearinghouse (DCO) and brokerage (FCM). Bitnomial offers the Bitcoin Complex comprising physically delivered Bitcoin Futures Options Deci Futures and Hashrate Futures used by brokers hedge funds institutions and trading firms around the world.

Bitnomial is hiring an engineer to design and own core services across the exchange and clearing stack: matching engines order lifecycle margin and risk systems position netting and settlement market data and collateral flows. The codebase is Haskell. The environment is low-latency high-correctness and directly connected to regulated capital markets. The work is systems design under regulatory latency and failure constraints.

This role is designed for two types of candidates: engineers from the trading or prop firm world (typically Java or C++) who want to work in Haskell and Haskell engineers who want to apply their skills to exchange and clearing infrastructure. Strength in either background is sufficient. Strength in both is exceptional.

• Strong software engineering skills in a compiled statically typed language (Haskell Java C++ Scala OCaml Rust)

• Comfort with concurrent and multithreaded systems

• Experience designing systems where correctness and latency both matter

• Ability to reason about failure modes edge cases and state management

• Clear written communication: design documents technical tradeoffs and architectural decisions

• Trading systems path: Experience building or operating order execution risk margin settlement or market data systems in any language. Understanding of exchange or clearing workflows position management or collateral systems.

• Haskell path: Production Haskell experience or deep familiarity with typed functional programming (strong type systems effect management property-based testing). Willingness to learn trading and clearing domain concepts.

• Linux systems proficiency: debugging profiling deployment

• Comfort with networked systems: TCP binary protocols serialization formats

• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)

• Familiarity with market protocols (FIX binary protocols) or message systems (Kafka) is a plus

Candidates should be able to:

• Own services end-to-end from design through production including observability and operational runbooks

• Debug across application network and system layers without waiting for someone else to narrow the problem

• Make sound technical decisions independently in ambiguous situations

• Operate with the rigor expected when systems handle real capital in regulated markets

Experience with matching engine or OMS internals real-time risk and margin systems high-throughput persistence and serialization or reconciliation and surveillance pipelines is valuable but not required.

If a candidate lacks the fundamental technical baseline described above the role is not a fit.

Compensation Range: $150K - $210K

What We Do

Bitnomial is building the next generation of U.S. derivatives infrastructure. We are a regulated exchange and clearinghouse offering bitcoin futures and options under full oversight of the CFTC. By combining the transparency and safeguards of traditional finance with the efficiency of digital assets Bitnomial brings institutional trust and accessibility to crypto-native markets. We operate as a Designated Contract Market (DCM) Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) and Future's Commission Merchant with end-to-end regulatory compliance and robust risk management built into every layer of our technology. From our headquarters in Chicago—a historic center of commodity and financial derivatives—we’re reimagining what’s possible in crypto trading and clearing. We believe the next generation of financial products will be built on-chain and we are building the secure regulated rails to power that future.

Why Work With Us

Join a small sharp team building regulated crypto markets from the ground up. At Bitnomial you’ll solve meaningful problems in trading clearing and infrastructure. We move fast build thoughtfully and value impact over ego.

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