Senior Back-End Engineer, Trading Platform

London, United Kingdom
Yesterday
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
14 May 2026 (Yesterday)

Benefits

Meaningful equity ClassPass Budgets for learning & professional development Unlimited vacation policy Apple equipment Flexible work culture

Blockchain is connecting the world to the future of finance. As the most trusted and fastest-growing global crypto company, it helps millions of people worldwide safely access cryptocurrency. Since its inception in 2011, Blockchain has earned the trust of over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, facilitating over $1 trillion in crypto transactions.

We are looking to hire aSenior Software Engineer to join our Institutional team in our London office. Blockchain.com is a high-performance culture marked by fearlessness and hyper productivity. You are a hardworking team player with a desire to learn and grow with us, someone who can work harder, faster, and smarter to deliver tangible results and process improvements.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

  • Build low latency, scalable and highly performant trading services in RUST including Order Management System (OMS), exchange gateways, risk management systems, etc.
  • Enhance and maintain OMS functionality, ensuring efficient order execution, routing, and management in a high-frequency trading environment.
  • Be a part of a fast-paced dedicated engineering team committed to constantly improving and iterating on cutting edge systems
  • Be at the forefront of the cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem building out a new set of financial services, systems and architecture.
  • Gain exposure to an array of low latency, high throughput techniques and algorithms.
  • Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do, employing advanced encryption schemes to secure user and company data.
  • Work closely with the other tech teams to seamlessly deliver the highest quality products and improve performance across the board

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

  • You possess an innate curiosity, and thrive on learning new technologies.
  • Extensive experience in C++ and/or Rust
  • Experience with Python and SQL.
  • Experience in one or more of the following programming areas:
  1. Multithreading
  2. Network programming, including multicast
  3. Performance benchmarking and tuning
  • Extreme interest in delivering high quality software. This means that testing is embedded in the development process from the very beginning, from coding stage (unit testing), to integration testing (local and end to end integration testing), to performance (load and capacity) testing and finally, to failure recovery testing. Software engineers are fully involved in the testing process, driving much of the testing at all stages.
  • Experience in trading systems architecture: Familiarity with Order Management Systems (OMS), exchange gateway connectivity, market data ingestion and processing, as well as high-throughput, low-latency systems.
  • You take a pragmatic approach to developing clean solutions to complex problems.
  • Basic understanding of algorithms, data structures, databases and distributed systems is must.

COMPENSATION & PERKS

  • Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
  • Role based in our London office, with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week
  • Work from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.
  • ClassPass
  • Budgets for learning & professional development
  • Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
  • Apple equipment
  • The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field
  • Flexible work culture

Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

You may contact our Data Protection Officer by email at . Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controller’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment.

Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it through this site. Because the European Union Commission has determined that United States data privacy laws do not ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data collected from EU data subjects, the transfer will be subject to appropriate additional safeguards under the standard contractual clauses.

Your personal data will be retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment. Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU supervisory authority.

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