As a Senior Engineer you'll be surrounded by smart and motivated colleagues with complimentary skillsets, offering a great platform for you to contribute ideas, commit code and help the team achieve tangible results.
What you'll be doing
Working as a part of a broader trading platform development team, you will
- Design, build and maintain a highly performant, highly available adaptive trading platform providing access to a broad range of CeFi, DeFi and OTC liquidity sources.
- Use software development methodologies to implement and extend order management, compliance, exchange connectivity, market data, and routing functionality.
- Design and implement our next-generation real-time trading platform.
- Manage and support the operation of our global trading system, troubleshooting and debugging issues.
- Work closely with traders and the business development department to implement new ideas swiftly.
- Mentor less experienced team members, act as a role model and support their professional growth.
The Ideal Candidate
- Experienced in implementing infrastructure components facilitating high volume, low latency trading within a prop trading firm or hedge fund.
- Track record of building highly performant, distributed and optimised (high throughput and/or low latency) systems in C# or modern C++ (>= 11) in a modern Linux environment.
- Outcome focused - able to balance speed to market and building highly available and robust platforms.
- Exposure to meta programming, Git, CI/CD, unit/integration testing, Kafka, FIX, Cloud
- Proactive communicator, willing to voice opinions but able to disagree and commit
- Knowledge of OMS/PMS platforms, exchange connectivity or high volume OTC trading would be advantageous.
Perks & Compensation
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Participation in company bonus pool
- Daily catered lunch
- Health insurance and wellness benefits
- Unlimited vacation policy
About Caladan
Caladan is a principal trading firm specializing in digital assets. We support exchanges, tokens, and institutional investors with market-making, tailored API liquidity, OTC options, and investments. Founded in 2017, we have traded continuously through every market cycle, powering over $170B in annual volume across 1000+ assets.
About Caladan
Caladan (formerly AlphaLab Capital) is a premier digital asset market maker and quantitative trading firm processing billions in daily volume across 100+ exchanges and DeFi protocols. Utilizing proprietary high-frequency execution algorithms and automated risk management, Caladan provides liquidity for top blockchain projects globally. Caladan provides 24/7 quantitative market making across 100+ crypto exchanges, deploying high-frequency trading algorithms to maintain continuous orderbook liquidity globally. Operating with proprietary algorithmic execution and automated risk management systems, Caladan supplies market liquidity for leading blockchain protocols, tokens, and digital asset venues. Caladan deploys high-frequency algorithmic market making algorithms and automated risk management across 100+ exchanges, providing continuous orderbook liquidity for digital assets.

