Software Engineer - Market Data

About Elwood

We have built a digital asset trading infrastructure for institutional investors. Our seamless end-to-end platform connects to global crypto exchanges, custodians, and liquidity providers, via a single Application Programming Interface (API).

Built by industry experts with decades of combined experience in investment management and digital technology. Elwood provides market infrastructure at scale, enabling financial institutions, neobanks, and corporations to access digital asset markets quickly and efficiently.

Job Description

Elwood is seeking a Software Engineer with Market Data experience to join the engineering team in London. Your goal is to provide an efficient, stable platform that reliably and predictably delivers accurate, high-quality data to our clients. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and enhance our platform for low latency/high frequency trading
• Strong SQL abilities.
• Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang
• Build features that help customers collaborate on asset management
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Monitor and support all production system components (trading algorithms, exchange connectivity, analytics, market data)
• Build the next iteration of our ingestion pipeline for scale, speed, and reliability. Read from a variety of upstream systems, in both batch and streaming fashion, including change data capture.
• Estimation, design, development and unit testing of features

Experience required include:

• Golang experience or other structured languages (C#, C++, Java)
• Extensive experience working with data processing / Financial market data knowledge
• Built systems in event-driven or streaming architectures using systems such as NATS
• Experience of building systems around transaction cost analysis (TCA)
• Financial markets experience
• POSIX-oriented, Serverless Architecture, Public cloud experience GCP/AWS
• Cloud Function/App Engine/Big Query
• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
• Excellent object oriented or functional analysis and design skills
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance

Why Elwood? 

• Join one of the fastest growing FinTech companies and help shape the future of finance
• A startup with deep financial backing and a strong market presence
• Our platform is enabling institutional access to the most exciting growth opportunity in Finance
• Work with a modern technology stack and help solve high impact problems
• Strong client focused team with a diverse background
• We’re a Global company and have offices in New York, Singapore & Geneva
• Competitive compensation package
• A hybrid mode of working in office and working from home

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer, you can read more about our policy here