Software Engineer - Trading Execution

Uphold is a financial technology company focused on on-chain services for finance. They are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join their core Trading team, responsible for building and optimizing the execution system of their global trading platform, ensuring high performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, building and maintaining our core trading execution systems using Golang
• Developing and managing high-throughput, low-latency connectivity to crypto exchanges and liquidity providers using REST, WebSockets and FIX protocols
• Optimising code for high concurrency and minimal latency to ensure best-in-class trade execution and system performance
• Enhancing our monitoring, alerting and observability stack for the execution platform to ensure system stability and rapid incident response
• Collaborating on the architecture of our distributed, microservice-based trading system

Requirements:

• BSc or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in Golang and/or C++ and Linux
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with real-time API protocols, particularly REST and WebSockets
• Strong grasp of concurrent programming principles (e.g., multithreading, goroutines, channels) and experience building highly concurrent applications
• A proven track record of working on low-latency, high-throughput, or performance-critical systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional team
• Fluent written and oral English skills
• Direct experience with the FIX protocol
• Experience with DeFi contracts and decentralised exchanges
• Experience in financial markets, especially crypto trading, HFT, or market making
• A solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, UDP, gRPC) and their impact on application performance
• Experience with message queues (e.g., Kafka, NATS) and distributed systems
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Nomad)