Trading Engineer

We are looking for engineers of all levels to help us enhance and expand the company's trading platform. The successful candidate will help maintain and enhance our existing platform, while simultaneously helping us grow and expand our platform to facilitate the company's growth and vision to be a leading high-frequency firm in crypto. We have basically no UIs, all development is back-end relating to our automated trading system. This includes things like algorithmic trading, connections to exchanges, data collection and processing, and model analysis and experimentation.

This role will focus more on building and enhancing the infrastructure around our trading systems, such as low-latency market connectivity, robust reconciliation and operations systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field
• Understanding of computer science data structures
• Experience programming in an object-oriented language, Python and C++
• Experience building low-latency connectivity and micro-services architecture
• Intellectually curious
• Self-motivated and driven
• Live in the London area

Kbit is a quantitative, high-turnover cryptocurrency trading firm with over $100 million in assets under management. Founded almost 5 years ago, we perform hundreds of thousands of trades a day in cryptos and crypto derivatives globally using a proprietary, distributed technology platform. Since inception we've done over $130 billion in trading volume and currently trade around $5 - $10 billion a month across many exchanges. We've been consistently profitable over different market cycles. We've built a proprietary platform for market data processing, order management, strategy execution, research, accounting, and operations.

We are a very small and entrepreneurial team. Our culture is casual, scientific, and engineering focused. There’s zero red tape, and tons of opportunity for impact. Our capital base has grown materially, and we are looking to expand our trading strategies and capabilities.