Senior Engineer, Trading Engineering

About Bullish Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include: Bullish Exchange – a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar. CoinDesk Indices – a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that trace the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital asset and traditional finance industries. CoinDesk Data – a broad suite of digital asset market data and analytics, providing real‑time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics. CoinDesk Insights – a digital asset media and events provider and operator of Coindesk.com, a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy, and blockchain technology. Reports to: Vice President, Engineering 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. Overview As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing product features on 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 or exceeds our high standards. 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 and non‑functional issues through building and maintaining test automation. Low Latency : Create reusable, reliable, scalable and low latency Java code at the core of the Exchange. 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 in performance tuning and optimization. Experience with RESTful and websocket designs and frameworks. Experience designing systems with high throughput and low latency. Hands‑on familiarity with popular Java frameworks such as Spring/Micronaut. Solid knowledge of testing methodologies, coding principles and coding standards. Well versed with standard SDLC practices and tooling around build, test, deploy etc. Good hands‑on git (GitHub), Docker, Kubernetes, JIRA, Confluence. Good understanding of middleware such as Chronicle Queue, RabbitMQ, 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 Experience working on core trading functionality, such as order matching and orderbook generation. Familiarity with financial derivative products, such as Options and Futures. Familiarity with blockchain technologies. Experience with FIX and related workflows. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr