Flow Traders is looking for a Staff Engineer to join us in our Amsterdam office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.
We are looking for a senior individual contributor to lead the architectural and technical direction for our Trading Automation and Backend Engineering teams. Operating across the full trade lifecycle (pre-trade, execution, and post-trade), you will bridge the gap between engineering, trading, and operations. As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle ambiguous, large-scale problems, set global engineering standards, and scale your impact by mentoring tech leads and engineers across multiple teams.
Strategic Architecture & Vision
- Define and own the long-term technical architecture for our trading automation, risk, and post-trade platforms.
- Translate complex, ambiguous business problems into clear, executable technical roadmaps.
- Architect scalable, event-driven systems optimized for high throughput, data integrity, and reliability.
- Elevate engineering standards across the organization, focusing on system design, observability, reliability, and scalability.
- Act as an IC multiplier: mentor senior engineers, guide tech leads, and drive technical alignment across fragmented systems.
- Lead efforts to responsibly decommission legacy systems in favor of modern, scalable services.
- Partner closely with trading, quant, risk, and operations teams to align technical choices with business value.
- Drive automation in post-trade and middle-office workflows (allocations, settlements, reconciliations) to drastically reduce operational risk.
What you need to succeed
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or cross-team Lead level.
- Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and drive consensus across multiple teams.
- Deep expertise in building distributed, high-performance, and highly reliable backend systems.
- Strong proficiency in at least one (or more) core backend language (Python, Go, C++, or Java).Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Databricks, Dataproc) and data pipelines.
- Solid understanding of modern infrastructure, observability, and cloud platforms.
Nice to have
- Deep knowledge of specific financial workflows (ETF creation/redemption, clearing, custody).
- Experience with financial reference data, symbology, or instrument modeling.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR) and their data lineage requirements.
- Solid background in financial services, trading, or market making.
- Strong working knowledge of the trading lifecycle (order flow, execution, and post-trade/settlement flows).
What we offer
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
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with Staff/Principal or cross-team lead experience
- Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and drive consensus
- Deep expertise building distributed, high-performance, reliable backend systems
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages: Python, Go, C++, or Java
- Experience with event-driven architectures and data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Databricks, Dataproc)
- Solid understanding of modern infrastructure, observability, and cloud platforms
- Deep knowledge of financial workflows (ETF creation/redemption, clearing, custody)
- Experience with financial reference data, symbology, or instrument modeling
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR) and data lineage requirements
- Background in financial services, trading, or market making
- Working knowledge of the trading lifecycle (order flow, execution, post-trade/settlement)
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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