Flow Traders is building the next generation of its post-trade platform, covering trade capture, reconciliation, settlement, booking, reporting, and operational workflows across Equities, ETFs, Fixed Income, and Crypto. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of key post-trade domains, helping shape the platform architecture while building reliable, automated, and data-driven services.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, thinking in systems, and building high-quality platforms that deliver real business impact.
What you will do- Own and develop critical post-trade domains such as reconciliation, settlement, booking, and reporting
- Work closely with Trading, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Data teams to understand workflows and requirements
- Design and build scalable backend services and data pipelines
- Improve automation, data quality, resilience, and operational efficiency
- Contribute to the target architecture and technical roadmap of the post-trade platform
- Ensure observability, reliability, and data correctness across systems
- 5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java or C++, with exposure to Python
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka
- Hands-on experience building data-intensive systems, ETL pipelines, and analytical data solutions
- Strong SQL and data modelling skills
- Proven ability to own complex technical domains from design through production support
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with post-trade workflows, including reconciliation, settlement, booking, or regulatory reporting
- Background in financial services, proprietary trading, or market making
- Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, Spark, Flink, or similar technologies
- Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
At Flow Traders, we create the conditions for hard‑working, high‑performing people to do their best work. From a thorough onboarding and ongoing access to Flow Academy, to latest technology and a collaborative, non‑hierarchical culture, we give you the tools, ownership, and support to move fast and drive outcomes. We keep a close‑knit, small‑company feel while offering competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share, and comprehensive benefits, so talent can grow here, and stay here. See our benefits below:
- Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
- Company boat
- In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event
- Global rotations across our offices worldwide
- and more
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems
- Professional experience with Java or C++
- Exposure to Python
- Understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka
- Experience building data-intensive systems, ETL pipelines, and analytical data solutions
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills
- Ability to own complex technical domains from design through production support
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with post-trade workflows such as reconciliation, settlement, booking, or regulatory reporting
- Background in financial services, proprietary trading, or market making
- Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, Spark, or Flink
- Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility. At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
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