Reports To
Vice President, Engineering
Engineering Organization & Culture
At Bullish, we are engineering the institutional standard for the digital asset industry.
The Team: Trading Product Engineering
The Trading Product Engineering team builds the core distributed systems that drive the global trading experience on Bullish Exchange. We own the end-to-end order lifecycle, orchestrating a hybrid matching engine that combines a Central Limit Order Book with proprietary Automated Market Making. Our high-throughput APIs enable trading across Spot, Futures, and Options. The work demands absolute correctness in managing complex financial state transitions, translating intricate market structures into scalable solutions.
What You’ll Do
- Design and deliver reusable, reliable, low-latency Java code that powers the Exchange.
- Raise the bar on code quality, organization, and automation as the system scales under load.
- Profile and resolve performance bottlenecks in the order-processing path.
- Improve stability through automated tests at the unit, integration, and performance layers.
- Collaborate across a distributed team of engineers, product managers, and project managers.
What You’ll Bring
- Strong Java (17+) fluency with experience in performance tuning.
- Track record of designing and building systems for high throughput and low latency.
- Hands‑on experience with agentic AI development: LLM integration, prompt engineering, and SDLC automation.
- Solid understanding of middleware and messaging technologies such as Chronicle Queue, RabbitMQ, Aeron, and Kafka.
- Working knowledge of Spring or Micronaut, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Deep knowledge of testing methodologies, SDLC practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ownership of the components the Exchange depends on.
Nice to Haves
- Experience working on core trading functionality such as order matching and orderbook generation.
- Familiarity with financial derivative products (Options, Futures), the FIX protocol, and related workflows.
- Understanding of blockchain technologies.
Equal Opportunity
In an effort to attract, retain, develop and promote the most qualified individuals, CoinDesk is committed to treating all applicants and employees in a nondiscriminatory manner with respect to the terms and conditions of employment, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status/service, physical or mental disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law. This mandate governs all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, promotion, training, education, social and recreation programs, compensation, discipline, termination and access to benefits.
Accommodation
CoinDesk is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application process, please send an e‑mail to recruiting@coindesk.com and let us know the nature of your request.
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