Job Overview
At Mustard, we value quick delivery and real‑world impact over perfect code. If you thrive on solving problems quickly and enjoy a flexible, outcome‑focused culture, this role could be a great fit.
What You’ll Work On
- Expand access to new liquidity providers using advanced web‑scraping and reverse‑engineering techniques.
- Develop and maintain low‑latency real‑time data feeds to support trading strategies.
- Enhance system visibility for our teams, providing insights into integration issues and improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build impactful features that align with business goals, delivering high‑quality code that adds measurable value.
- Collaborate on code quality: review, test, and ensure functionality, maintainability, performance, and quality standards.
- Take ownership of production software, ensuring stability and addressing issues quickly.
- Collaborate cross‑team, partnering with traders and quants to design solutions to real business problems.
- Participate in out‑of‑hours support for our software systems.
Core Tech Stack
- Languages: Python 3.10+, JavaScript/TypeScript for frontend, Go for select infrastructure.
- Tools: RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis.
- Environment: Linux servers.
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix.
Requirements
Must‑Haves
- Strong background in software development with extensive experience in Python.
- A degree in Computer Science or a numerical subject from a top university.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to convey complex technical ideas clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Strong decision‑making abilities, adept at making thoughtful trade‑offs in implementation and architecture.
- Experience with web‑scraping and reverse‑engineering techniques, including working against bot‑protection tooling.
Nice‑to‑Haves
- Familiarity with building event‑driven systems.
- Comfort with Linux/Unix environments.
- Track record of driving successful cloud migrations, ideally to AWS, including setting up secure, scalable accounts and access structures.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with significant bonus potential.
- Enhanced pension match with salary sacrifice option.
- Health insurance and life assurance.
- Sabbatical leave after five years.
- 33 days of annual leave (including bank holidays).
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Engineering and Information Technology
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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