Staff Software Engineer, Institutional FCM

About the role

A hands on technical anchor role across a regulated futures commission merchant, spanning market data, order routing, settlement, reporting and risk, with a major replatforming underway.

What you will do

• Lead replatforming work and cut reliance on legacy vendors while improving stability
• Set technical standards through code and design reviews and reduce key technical debt
• Work with product, risk, operations, finance and compliance teams to deliver auditable systems
• Mentor engineers and raise code quality and architectural rigour across the team

What they look for

• Eight or more years of backend engineering with ownership of complex production distributed systems
• Direct FCM or derivatives experience covering part of the futures trade lifecycle
• Strong modern backend language skills, with Go preferred and Java or similar acceptable
• Experience in a regulated financial setting where correctness and auditability matter
• A record of delivering end to end, including migrating off legacy systems, while coding hands on
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency and quality

Nice to have

• Ion XTP or comparable exchange platform experience