Senior Java Engineer

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:

Manager, Engineering

At Bullish, we value collaboration, innovation, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Join our global team of passionate engineers dedicated to building a highly performant and highly available Exchange Trading System. We pride ourselves on designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable software solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive our business forward.  

Role Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing highly performant micro-services and trading engines. You will excel in this role by utilizing your excellent problem-solving skills and ability to devise innovative solutions. Your proficiency in navigating ambiguity and thriving in a dynamic environment will be essential to your success.

In addition, you will bring a collaborative mindset, working effectively with cross-functional teams, including risk management professionals and quantitative analysts, to understand business requirements and translate them into reliable and high-performance software systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, Build, and Maintain: Create reusable, reliable and highly performant Java code that meets our high standards.

• Low Latency: Create reusable, reliable, scalable and low latency Java code at the core of the Exchange.

• Problem Solving: Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise innovative solutions to overcome these challenges.

• Code Quality: Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation to ensure our systems are robust and scalable.

• Testing: Continuously identify functional/non-functional issues through building and maintaining test automation.

• Global Collaboration: Work as part of a dynamic, agile global team, including Engineering, Product and Project Management.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong proficiency in Java (ideally 17+) and experience with performance tuning and optimization.

• Experience designing systems with high throughput and low latency from the ground up.

• Candidates must show mastery in important classes/packages in the JDK including but not limited to high performance, low latency, 0 garbage techniques and concurrency.

• Hands-on familiarity with popular Java Frameworks such as Spring/Micronaut.

• Solid and opinionated knowledge of testing methodologies, coding principles and coding standards.

• Well versed with standard SDLC practices and tooling around build, test, deploy etc.

• Good knowledge of API development and API gateways.

• Experience with RESTful and websocket designs and frameworks.

• Experience with FIX and related workflows.

• Good hands on git (github), Docker, Kubernetes, JIRA, Confluence.

• Good understanding of middleware such as Chronicle Queue, Aeron and Kafka.

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices.

• Hands on with a strong sense of ownership and drive.

• Computer Science or related degree.

Bonus Experience:

• Familiarity with blockchain technologies.

• Familiarity with GCP.

• Financial services experience.   

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.