Software Engineer

Bytex develops a trading automation suite for building, testing, deploying, backtesting, and orchestrating trading strategies. The Senior Software Engineer will evolve its trading engine and Trading Studio, focusing on performance, correctness, integrations, scalable orchestration, and developer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build core components of our open-source Trading Engine and its SDK
• Own performance and determinism: every event must be repeatable, precise and fast
• Develop integrations with exchanges, brokers and market data providers (REST, WebSocket, historical APIs)
• Build and maintain orchestration for running strategies at scale in Docker environments
• Extend MCP and agent access to the Studio, with strict sandboxing and read-only data guarantees
• Review code, mentor engineers and contribute to architecture decisions

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong C# / .NET
• Experience building high-performance, data-intensive or low-latency systems
• Strong grasp of concurrency, memory management and profiling
• Experience with Docker, Redis and data formats such as Parquet and CSV
• Experience designing clean, well-documented APIs and SDKs
• Comfortable working with open-source codebases and public repositories
• Good written English and the ability to work async in a remote team
• Strong ability to explain technical trade-offs in simple words
• Security-first mindset: encryption, isolation, safe defaults
• High agency: you find the problem, propose the fix and ship it
• Strong understanding of numerical correctness and system reliability
• Clear written English and good documentation habits
• Prior work on trading systems, matching engines, backtesters or market data infrastructure
• Experience with fixed-point arithmetic and precision-critical code
• Experience with LLM tool use, MCP, or agent sandboxing
• Open-source contributions
• Background in Math, Physics or Computer Science
• Shipped production trading, exchange or market data software