Lead Engineer, Engineering

The Bullish Group has built an ecosystem focused on developing financial services for the digital assets sector through technology and investment businesses. These include: Bullish Exchange - digital asset trading services that utilize central limit order matching and proprietary market making technology to deliver deep liquidity and tight spreads within a compliant framework. The business is licensed by the Hong Kong SFC, German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFIN), and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. Since its launch in November 2021, Bullish Exchange has surpassed US$1.1 trillion in total trading volume, with 2H 2024 volume exceeding US$2 billion per day. Bullish Capital - an investment company which offers strategic capital, industry expertise and an extensive network of resources to support initiatives that connect conventional finance with the revolutionary possibilities of the digital economy. CoinDesk - an award-winning media, events, indices and data business servicing the global crypto economy. 

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.