Core Engineer - DeFi - London (F/M/D)
New Today
Mission
Be a key player in the newly formed Core Engineering team at Flowdesk to build a world class back office system which will serve as the backbone for Flowdesk's systems. Work alongside a seasoned team with deep product, buy‑side, and sell‑side experience in both Crypto and TradFi.
Tasks
- DeFi Integrations - Collect all necessary on-chain data and integrate with decentralized protocols to power an accurate, real-time back office system. You will be responsible for ensuring management has a comprehensive, up-to-date view of all on-chain assets. This includes owning the full process from requirements analysis, task specification, implementation, to post-production support.
- Core Booking / Aggregation - Implement and enhance features in the core booking and aggregation engine (Realised / Unrealised P&L, Balances etc) ensuring performance, reliability and correctness.
- Reconciliation - Automate reconciliation of all trading and treasury activity across the firm implementing data feeds from internal systems, banking, exchanges and custodians.
- Reporting - Work closely with the Finance and other internal users to gather and refine requirements, plan milestones, demo progress, and coordinate cutovers from manual / legacy workflows.
- Data products and APIs - Expose well-versioned APIs and event streams for downstream consumers; maintain backward compatibility and schema evolution.
Ways of working
- Follow established architecture and coding standards; participate in RFCs/design reviews and propose incremental improvements within existing patterns.
- Write clean, well-documented code and meaningful tests.
- Contribute to PR reviews; maintain up-to-date technical docs and diagrams.
- Own components end-to-end from spec to production support.
Must Haves - Experience
- Lifecycle knowledge of crypto asset classes: spot, perpetuals, futures, and options (including DeFi implementations).
- Hands-on integration with Defi protocols (DEX/AMM, lending, derivatives) such as Uniswap v3, Curve, Aave.
- Proven track record delivering scalable, reliable systems in production.
- Comfortable partnering with internal stakeholders across Trading, Ops, Compliance, and Engineering.
Must Haves - Technical
- Strong OO background in one or more, Go, C++, C#, Java or Rust.
- Experience with Typescript and Python.
- API design (versioning, backwards compatibility, observability)
- Postgres schema design and query optimization.
- Experience with message queue / pub-sub systems.
- Familiarity with cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure), modern CI/CD and containerization.
Nice-to-Haves - Experience
- Built or maintained position-keeping / accounting systems (PnL, accounting methods, pricing, greeks).
- Centralized reference data platforms (assets, networks, instruments), consistent symbology and instrument economics.
- Trading, risk, or back-office systems, ideally in regulated environments.
- International environment (English is the main language)
- Pension
- 100% health coverage
- Team events and offsites
Recruitment Process
- HR interview (30')
- Technical interview - Hiring Manager (30')
- Take home assignment + Live coding session (90')
- Team Member Technical (45')
- CTO (45")
- Chat with the Head of People (30')
- Location:
- London
- Category:
- Engineering