THE ROLE
Ethena has quickly established itself as the fastest growing and most innovative financial product utilising digital asset
technology to date. The Trading Technology team is 3 exceptional engineers from the highest quality trading environments. Joining
them you share in the full responsible for the overall strategy, development, and maintenance of Ethena’s trading platform. Which
sits at the heart of, and powers, its flagship products: USDe & sUSDe.
The role reports to the Team Lead. Our focus is on high-quality engineering, resilient system design, development-velocity, and
delivering best-in-class execution capabilities.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Contribute to Building a Greenfield, Best-in-Class, Next-Gen Trading Platform: Own large elements of designing and implementing
a robust trading platform that ensures efficient execution of large trade sizes with minimal slippage.
- Develop Market Data and Execution Capabilities: Build high-performance market data pipelines and ensure seamless integration
with multiple trading venues (REST/WS, FIX, and other protocols).
- Own Delivery of New Product and Feature Development: Collaborate with quant and trading teams to develop and implement new
trading strategies and execution logic.
- Foster Software Excellence: Apply modern software development best practices, such as TDD, BDD, test automation, CI/CD
pipelines, and SOLID principles.
- Optimize for Performance and Resilience: Design fault-tolerant architectures with failover mechanisms to ensure high
availability and reliability.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Extensive Experience in Trading Systems Development: Track record of building and supporting trading infrastructure from the
ground up, including market data feed handlers, algo engines, backtesting frameworks, and execution platforms.
- Strong Software Engineering Fundamentals: Expertise in modern development practices (TDD, BDD, CI/CD, SOLID), how to write
modular, clean, code, and resilient system design.
- Deep Understanding of Financial Markets: Strong knowledge of trading mechanisms, security protocols, and infrastructure
management across multiple venues.
- Experience with Crypto Trading Venues and Derivatives: Hands-on experience working with centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) and
trading instruments such as perpetual swaps and deliverable futures.
- Multi-Venue Trading Experience: Understanding of order routing, trade reconciliation, and execution quality optimization across
multiple trading venues.
- High-Performance System Design: Expertise in optimizing for system performance, ensuring low-latency execution, high
throughput, and execution quality.
- Excellent Problem-Solving Skills: Strong ability to break down complex challenges into actionable solutions and make strategic
technical decisions.
- Passion for Testing and Automation: Strong advocate for TDD, BDD, and test automation with hands-on experience in unit,
integration, regression, performance, and end-to-end testing.