Staff/Senior Trading Technology Engineer

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.

• 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.

• 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.