Lead Engineer, Engineering

Focused on developing products and services for the digital assets sector, Bullish has rewired the traditional exchange to benefit asset holders, enable traders and increase market integrity. Supported by the group’s treasury, Bullish’s new breed of exchange combines deep liquidity, automated market making and industry-leading security and compliance to increase the accessibility of digital assets for investors. Bullish exchange is operated by Bullish (GI) Limited and is fully regulated in Gibraltar.Mission: To make trading with digital assets more rewarding and secure.​Vision: To be the most innovative, respected, and trusted leader in crypto.

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.