Sr. Low Latency Engineer
📍 Hybrid – Chicago Preferred | Also Open to New York City
💰 $150,000–$175,000 Base + Bonus Potential
No sponsorship offered and must be able to work without sponsorship now or in the future
A cutting-edge fintech company is building a next-generation prediction market platform in partnership with leading global brokerage and trading firms. The platform is focused on creating scalable, market-driven forecasting infrastructure that transforms how organizations generate insight and make decisions.
We are seeking a Sr. Low Latency Engineer to help develop the high-throughput matching engine and clearing systems powering the core trading infrastructure.
This role is ideal for an experienced engineer passionate about ultra-low-latency systems, distributed architecture, and solving complex performance challenges at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build core exchange and clearing infrastructure
- Develop features within: matching engines, order management systems, clearing workflows
- Build ultra-low-latency messaging architectures using: Aeron, Hydra or similar frameworks
- Develop customer-facing APIs using: FIX, REST, WebSocket
- Build fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging:, Kafka, PostgreSQL in-memory processing
- Collaborate closely with Staff Engineers on architecture and technical direction
- Improve scalability, latency, reliability, and system performance
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Participate in production support and on-call rotations
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience building high-performance distributed systems
- Advanced Java expertise, including:, concurrency, JVM tuning, memory management
- performance optimization
- Experience building: low-latency systems, high-throughput messaging systems, scalable backend infrastructure
- Experience with: Kafka, PostgreSQL, microservices, REST APIs, WebSocket APIs
Strongly Preferred
Experience with:
- Aeron, Hydra, or similar low-latency messaging frameworks
- FIX protocol experience
- Trading systems or exchange infrastructure experience
- Financial markets or derivatives knowledge
Education
Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in:
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- or related technical discipline
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: $150,000–$175,000
- Potential sign-on bonus in competitive situations
- 401(k) with employer match
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- PTO and additional benefits
If you enjoy building high-performance trading infrastructure, solving difficult latency challenges, and working at the intersection of distributed systems and financial technology, we’d love to connect.
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