Bullish

Bullish

Senior Software Engineer, Clearing Engineering

New York, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$230kDetected 83 days ago
JavaDistributed SystemsData StructuresAlgorithmsSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisBigQuerySnowflakeDatabricksAWSGCPDockerKubernetesDevOpsAirflowdbtData VisualizationLLMsAI OrchestrationTest AutomationMentoring

About the role

  • Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar.
  • CoinDesk Indices - a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries.
  • CoinDesk Data - a broad suite of digital assets market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain high-performance microservices and stream processing pipelines for Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, and Clearing.
  • Apply a deep understanding of the trade lifecycle-from capture and netting to settlement-to optimize data models and workflows.
  • Collaborate with global teams (HK, NY)-including Product Managers, Quants, and Risk Managers-to distill complex requirements into clear technical specifications.
  • Drive the evolution of the platform's target-state architecture, staying current with industry trends to ensure continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Advanced Java proficiency.
  • Implementation experience with middleware, specifically Aeron and Kafka.
  • Proficiency managing both SQL and NoSQL data stores (e.g., Postgres, Redis, MongoDB).
  • Proficiency with cloud and DevOps ecosystems (e.g., AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker) and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, DBT).
  • Experience with BI tools for data visualization (e.g., Tableau, Superset).

Skills

  • Director, Engineering
  • Engineering Organization & Culture

Compensation

  • The anticipated base salary for this position is $180,000 - $230,000 + discretionary annual target bonus + performance incentives/benefits.
  • Offered salary will be reflective of job related knowledge, skills and commensurate experience.

Benefits

  • Bullish US LLC & CoinDesk Inc. are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits.

Company info

  • Clearing Engineering
  • The Clearing Engineering Team builds the mission-critical infrastructure for Bullish Clearing.
  • We mitigate systemic risk through automated default management and ensure operational integrity via high-precision data validation.
  • Our proprietary netting algorithms drive capital efficiency and market velocity, reducing liquidity requirements while accelerated settlement cycles provide participants with faster access to funds.
  • We solve complex distributed systems challenges on a modern cloud-native stack, rejecting "good enough" in favor of the engineering rigor required to operate within highly regulated jurisdictions.
  • We are fast evolving and striving towards being a globally-diverse community.

Equal opportunity

  • Bullish is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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