Description
Flow Traders is building the next generation of its post-trade platform, covering trade capture, reconciliation, settlement, booking, reporting, and operational workflows across Equities, ETFs, Fixed Income, and Crypto.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of key post-trade domains, helping shape the platform architecture while building reliable, automated, and data-driven services.
Responsibilities
- Own and develop critical post-trade domains such as reconciliation, settlement, booking, and reporting
- Work closely with Trading, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Data teams to understand workflows and requirements
- Design and build scalable backend services and data pipelines
- Improve automation, data quality, resilience, and operational efficiency
- Contribute to the target architecture and technical roadmap of the post-trade platform
- Ensure observability, reliability, and data correctness across systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java or C++, with exposure to Python
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka
- Hands-on experience building data-intensive systems, ETL pipelines, and analytical data solutions
- Strong SQL and data modelling skills
- Proven ability to own complex technical domains from design through production support
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with post-trade workflows, including reconciliation, settlement, booking, or regulatory reporting
- Background in financial services, proprietary trading, or market making
- Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, Spark, Flink, or similar technologies
- Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Benefits
- Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
- Company boat
- In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event
- Global rotations across our offices worldwide