Senior Software Engineer, Trading Technology (Query Stack)

## About BitMEX BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with “no coin lost, ever!”. Our platform caters to cryptocurrency derivatives traders by providing low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability. Currently, BitMEX offers more than 100 derivatives contracts, 16 pairs for spot trading, and an easy covert function between 30+ different cryptocurrencies. In 2015, BitMEX revolutionised the market by inventing the Perpetual Swap, which has since become the most widely traded crypto product. Demonstrating a commitment to transparency, since 2021, BitMEX has been among the first exchanges to regularly publish its on-chain Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabilities, ensuring that the funds available exceed the total client balances.

- Design, development, maintenance and support of fault-tolerant, containerised distributed systems of microservices, for the writing and reading of exchange data - Provide services to both internal and external clients, such as new products, support tooling, analysis tooling. This is a rapidly moving environment with a varied and expanding product line - Evaluation of new technologies - Collaboration with peers, internal and external users on technical design and direction - Act as a senior technical resource to junior engineers

- Have a Computer Science/Engineering degree - 10+ years of writing Java components in a distributed fault tolerant environment. Integration with data sources, such as relational databases and messaging middleware. - Comfortable with TDD/BDD, with a good appreciation of clean coding principles - Spring - Rest services, to extract/insert data from databases - Strong engineering skill set with firm grasp of fundamental Computer Science principles - Work in a Linux/containerised environment and have experience tuning it - Collaborate across time zones/team boundaries to engineer best possible outcome - Ability to adapt to changing priorities within a fast moving industry and startup culture

- **Work from home** to help you find the perfect balance between work, family and personal life - **Paid holidays and leave** so you won’t miss out any important events - **Team building & offsite events** to bring our global team closer - Don’t forget the advantage of our **Beyond Border Remote Working** policy, where you get to work away from your home country - Option to choose to be **paid in fiat or crypto** currency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom

BitMEX is a leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchange founded in 2014, specializing in perpetual swaps, futures, and leveraged trading on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with up to 100x leverage. It pioneered the XBTUSD perpetual swap and provides deep liquidity, low latency, and secure trading without any funds lost to hacks. The platform serves professional traders globally, excluding restricted jurisdictions like the US, and supports trading in crypto and global stocks.