Senior Software Engineer

Elwood is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering Team where you will contribute to the design, development and analytical requirements of the Trading Platform whilst working closely with the Product Team.

• Develop and enhance our trading platform adding new features and capacities
• Working as a member of the Elwood Engineering team to ensure consistency across the instances and broader client build road map
• Implementing and optimising execution and algorithmic trading strategies
• Building new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang
• Building features that help customers collaborate on asset management
• Working with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Monitoring and support of all production system components (trading algorithms, exchange connectivity, analytics, market data)
• Enhancing our platform for low latency/high frequency trading
• Maintaining a strong foundation of testing to avoid regressions.

• 3+ years experience in a similar role
• Extensive knowledge working with data processing/Financial market data knowledge
• AI collaboration using Cursor, Copilot or equivalent
• Some familiarity with commonly used execution algorithms — such as VWAP, TWAP, POV
• Built systems in event-driven or streaming architectures using systems such as NATS/Aeron
• Experience of building systems around transaction cost analysis (TCA)
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Understanding of order pricing and routing
• Strong experience developing large-scale concurrent, event-driven distributed systems
• FIX protocol
• Golang experience or other structured languages (C#, C++, Java)
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• POSIX-oriented, Serverless Architecture, Public cloud experience GCP/AWS
• PostgreSQL or other RDBMS
• Experience in development and supporting trading systems (Desirable)
• Understanding of financial markets,  crypto markets and products (Desirable)