Crypto HFT – New York / Remote – $400-600k

Durlston Partners is working with 2 teams within existing profitable systematic trading firms and the chances are you’ve never heard of them.

One such team has spun out of a hedge fund, backed by some of the biggest names on the traditional Buy-Side. They’ve posted positive returns every month since they went live. This team is creating class-leading trading infrastructure for both CeFi and DeFi Trading because none of the 3rd party services were up to scratch to what they needed.

They are looking to hire a C++ Developer (APIs, Connectivity) to help get the best prices in the market. What’s important to them? Hiring people who are “all hands on deck” for an opportunity to make a life changing amount of money. The current team comes from an impressive background both in terms of academic and corporate institutions. This opportunity is New York based.

The other team is setting up a Digital Asset team from scratch where you will build and maintain ultra-low-latency trading strategies and trading tools. This opportunity is remote and offers one of the best benefits packages in the industry.

Required

• Bulletproof computer science fundamentals
• Deep C++ experience
• Performance enhancement and optimisation, contemporary machine architecture, connectivity to exchanges, and/or server technologies based on Linux

People are not checklists: if you are curious about this opportunity, but not sure if it’s the perfect match, please reach out to me on LinkedIn or via email (josh@durlstonpartners.com) and we can have a chat!

Head of Business Development – Crypto – Bay Area / Remote – $200 – 250k base + tokens

In a time when some crypto businesses are shrinking, there are only a few doing the exact opposite, with the balance sheet to make it happen.

During a recession, tech firms may adopt a more cautious approach to hiring. There’s an increased focus on cost-saving measures, and a shift towards hiring for roles that are deemed essential for the company’s immediate needs. In most cases, this means only hiring on the engineering and technology front.

Therefore, it takes a special type of firm to have the funding and the vision to continue growing its business with its first hire in Business Development.

The Company

We are working with project who are pioneering an approach to security in the Cosmos ecosystem. Spun out of a research lab at one of the world’s most recognisable academic institutions, this team is currently made up of top software engineers and research scientists.

The Role

As the first hire in Business Development and Partnerships, you will build long-term and sustainable partnerships with apps in the Cosmos ecosystem and other Layer-1 chains, as well as users of these chains such as exchanges.

You will contribute to designing business products and growing the company’s userbase. You will write business proposals, drive business negotiations, and follow through to close deals.

Requirements

• 3+ years of business and partnership development experience in the crypto industry
• Experience with Cosmos and a network in this space
• Bay Area preferred but can consider someone in EMEA / APAC

We specialise in Tech / Systematic Quant recruitment. For a confidential discussion about this role, and the market in general, please reach out to me at josh@durlstonpartners.com or send an application.

HR Manager – High Frequency Trading – London – Up to £70k base + bonus

In a time when some crypto businesses are shrinking, there are only a few doing the exact opposite, with the balance sheet to make it happen.

During a recession, tech firms may adopt a more cautious approach to hiring. There’s an increased focus on cost-saving measures, and a shift towards hiring for roles that are deemed essential for the company’s immediate needs. In most cases, this means only hiring on the engineering and technology front.

Therefore, it takes a special type of firm to have the funding and the vision to continue growing its business with one of its first HR hires.

The Company

We are working with a pioneering firm that specialises in trading and market making for cryptocurrencies. Despite a challenging backdrop currently in the world of digital assets, this firm continues to hire throughout, a positive sign of their approach towards risk.

The Role

As the first HR hire in London, you will deliver impactful initiatives that span the HR spectrum. This includes talent acquisition, talent development, employee relations, employee engagement, and performance management.

You will support the team throughout their journey, from their first day on the job to their last. This includes administering compensation and benefits programs, such as insurance, payroll, bonuses, pensions, and leave.

You’ll also fly the flag for this respected brand in the crypto community! Increasing brand awareness will be done on university campuses and build strong relationships with student organisations and career centres.

Additionally, you’ll provide guidance and support to managers on all employee relations cases, handling these sensitive issues with confidentiality and fairness.

Requirements

• 4 years of experience as a HR generalist
• A solid understanding UK employment legislations
• Experience driving HR projects from proposal to delivery

How does working with someone commended for the quality of his C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup himself sound?

A London based quant-driven crypto fund is looking to add C++ developers to their team before beginning trading operations. They use proprietary data sources along with blockchain expertise to distinguish themselves from their competition.

They are looking for C++ devs who:

• Are highly proficient in C++
• Have Golang experience (not necessary)
• Have an interest in the crypto industry
• Have latency and algo experience

They’re incubated by a multi-billion dollar fund, and are looking to scale strategically and steadily over the course of the next year, kicking things off with 2 x C++ Engineers to report into the Head of Algo Trading.

The team consists of a few ex-Morgan Stanley, and even an ex-Citadel Head of European High Frequency Trading Technology.

– Extremely high impact work – value seen in your own input
– Little red-tape
– Work directly with founders
– No room for egos – the focus is on creating the most efficient code and making everyone money – very flat structure
– Funding is secured, with a valuation of roughly £3m per person

Finance experience not required – latency experience (e.g. in both finance and gaming) is more important

There is a large focus on deliverables, and bonus etc is based on the work that you put in, and the success of the company. The small team nature means that you’ll see your impact correlate directly into the business.

• Up to 150k + bonus
• 4 days in-office 1 day remote
• 3 stage interview process (no take-home test)

If you or someone you know would be interested in this role, get in contact at:

• Email: ruairidh@durlstonpartners.com
• LinkedIn: Ruairidh Handyside

Referrals are well rewarded with cash

Job Title: Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Company: FinTech / Hedge Fund start-up

Reports to: Head of DevSecOps

About the Company:

This FinTech start-up offers institutional clients a sophisticated algorithmic trading and execution service for digital assets on both centralized and decentralized platforms. Led by a leadership team with decades of experience at top tier banks, the company brings a high level of professionalism to the crypto space.

Job Description: As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and maintenance of the company’s infrastructure. You will work to safeguard the company’s reputation by implementing best practices for Identity and Access Management, Encryption, Vaulting, and Security. You will ensure that the infrastructure is secure by design and is regularly tested and audited. Additionally, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline for infrastructure and applications, and troubleshoot any issues that may arise with the infrastructure and application deployments.

Required Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in regulated industries, creating and safeguarding infrastructure and applications through automated monitoring and efficient recovery processes.
• Expertise in designing the full technical stack, including AWS and third-party services.
• Familiarity with AWS
• Automated builds of secure Linux and AWS EKS environments.
• Terraform, MS Active Directory for SSO and Federated Identity.

Lead data scientist / KDB developer – Crypto HFT – 100% Remote

A crypto market maker is looking for a lead data scientist / KDB developer to join their flat-structured and entrepreneurial team of highly skilled traders and tech professionals as they expand their trading capacities. and will give you the opportunity to be working alongside traders, quant researchers, and other engineers to come up with innovative solutions to the challenging implementation of a cutting hedge HFT system.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and support tick and algo time series database as a foundation for their proprietary electronic market making strategy research
• Build and optimize KDB+ APIs for trading strategies
• Conduct data research, answering questions about the effectiveness of new strategies
• Develop and maintain processes that ingest, transform, enrich and store a combination of structured (blockchain data, reference data etc.) and unstructured data.
• Write code to integrate new trading strategies
• Build automatic reporting systems/dashboards

Qualifications:

• Degree in quantitative degree e.g. Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science
• Experience in data analysis & large data sets
• Experience in a HFT environment
• KDB+ and Q/K expertise
• Strong skills in C++/GO/Rust
• Experience building out infrastructure of large scale-systems

Apply via this page or:

Email me at ruairidh@durlstonpartners.com

Message me on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruairidh-handyside

Help launch new funds & keep trades flowing at NYC asset manager

The Role:

• A New York based specialist asset manager is looking for python developers to be working on launching new funds with the team, who are looking to help you grow and better your skills, by providing the mentorship and training that is required.
• They’re holding just under $10bn AUM for a wide variety of clients across the globe.
• They already have a CRD order system and SQL database in place, and are looking for someone to keep trades flowing into the CRD, then into their accounting system, and then into the database (robustly). You’ll also be key in preparing presentable data for reporting.

Requirements:

• Experience with Python and SQL
• Strong communication skills

Experience that may be helpful:

• Interface and Derivatives
• Risk analysis background
• Operations
• Analysis
• Commodities is a positive
• Data presentation

Benefits:

• This role has no coding test and short interview process
• Large bonus
• hybrid working – 2 days WFH
• Flexible working hours with an extremely low burnout rate!

Apply via this page or send me a message at:

ruairidh@durlstonpartners.com

www.linkedin.com/in/ruairidh-handyside

Durlston Partners is working with the crypto arm of a major global hedge fund who are looking for a Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer to join a specialised on-chain trading team. This group of highly skilled individuals is a breakaway group from the crypto arm of a major hedge fund, and you’ll have the chance to be on their founding team. Due to their ties to tradfi markets, and the cyptoasset ecosystem, this team is uniquely positioned to take advantage of all of the resources provided by the Hedge Fund.

You’ll get the opportunity to modify and interoperate with nodes and other blockchain components for on-chain trading activities, using skills in Go and Rust. This role will be a good fit for anyone with a passion for DeFi.

Helpful to have:

• Experience with node related development
• Golang and Rust experience
• Experience/interest in finance or DeFi
• Opensource projects/contributions
• Knowledge of chain roadmaps

Would you like to be mentored by a CTO who, when working at one of the world’s top High Frequency Trading firms, had a 94% success rate in promoting engineers who worked for them? Now the Chief Technology Officer at an emerging Market Maker in Digital Assets, this person will regularly sit down with you and ensure your career development is as important to them as it is to you.

We’ve teamed up with a Crypto HFT and Market Maker keen to bring in a Network Security Engineer to their high performing infrastructure team. In this senior role you’ll take the lead on the entire Palo Alto estate and will work closely with a DevOps Engineer on security challenges regarding AWS.

If career development is your priority, there aren’t many opportunities likes this in security engineering.

Requirements

• Firewalls experience (Palo Alto preferred but open to any)
• AWS knowledge in a security context
• Linux experience
• Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems

Benefits

• Hybrid
• Owner-mentality reflected in equity
• Low hierarchy
• Huge learning curve working with distinguished engineers

For more information, please contact: josh@durlstonpartners.com

We are working with one of the world’s leading hedge funds, overseeing assets on behalf of institutional investors from around the world, who are looking for a Front End engineer to work on the development of a macro trend-spotting platform.

As part of this project, you will not only be cooperating with project managers and strats, but also working closely with front office teams and quantitative developers in a highly collaborative environment.

Technical requirements:

• Strong JavaScript and React expertise
• Prior experience in single-page apps architecture
• Experience in testing with Jest (or similar)

Benefits:

• Salary up to £140k base + bonus
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements, with a 3/2 WFH day split
• Swift and streamlined interview process

People are not checklists: if you are curious about this opportunity, but not sure if it’s the perfect match, please apply attaching your CV or emailing it to nicole@durlstonpartners.com and a member of the team will get back to you asap.
Feel free to email nicole@durlstonpartners.com or contact me on LinkedIn if you want to arrange a discreet discussion about any of the current openings with Durlston Partners’ client base.

The company

The only market maker who continually provided quotes for clients during the recent saga in the crypto world is seeking a Quantitative Trader to manage risk for the firm. Informed decision making and being considered in their practices is one of their core values. As a firm whose service level is heralded as better than any other market maker, compensation includes a bonus which has potential to be multiples of base.

You will

• Actively and tangibly boost their earnings
• Enhance customer trading experience to increase customer service quality
• Increase exchange trading efficiency to keep them at the forefront of cryptocurrency trading

This role would best suit someone who has spent 6-18 months in a trading environment and wants to step into an industry leading market maker to be mentored by world class traders.

Requirements:

• Bulletproof academics in Maths, Physics or Statistics
• Solid Python experience
• 6+ months commercial experience

Culture is at the core of any successful business and this firm prides themselves on having created an environment that gets the best out of the team while maintaining a healthy atmosphere. To reach their big ambitions, you will work in one of their high performing teams where your contribution is rewarded fairly

The Company

We are working with a pioneering firm that specialises in trading and market making for cryptocurrencies. Despite a challenging backdrop currently in the world of digital assets, this firm continues to hire throughout, a positive sign of their approach towards risk.

The Opportunity

Your overall opportunity as a Business Development Executive is to build a strong brand name and presence in the digital assets space. You will do this by boosting strategic alliances while preserving existing business connections (e.g. cryptocurrency exchanges). Another key aspect of this role is to satisfy their trading and business demands by facilitating and leading discussions with cryptocurrency exchanges.

Requirements

• 2 – 3 years Business Development experience
• You love relationship management
• Demonstrable interest in digital assets

Benefits

• Hedge fund style bonus
• Non-hierarchical company
• Flexible working environment

Investment Management Firm – Algorithmic Trading Software Engineer – Up to £200k Base + Bonus

Our client is a quantitative and systematic investment manager with offices in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Their market presence is global and expands across the largest liquid electronic venues in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America. They combine, trading expertise, research, and new technologies to achieve high-quality returns for investors.

Responsibilities:

• A key member of the development team, building and enhancing key components for the trading and research platform
• A role with the potential to touch many aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, back testing, and data management systems roll out
• Working with traders and quants to role, support, and run strategies
• Building and supporting new quantitative trading framework software
• Designing clean architecture and leveraging state-of-the-art tools and components
• Bringing new ideas and experimenting with new technologies

Requirements:

• Up to 5 years of professional experience
• Proficient in C++ and Python skills
• Very high standards in code quality and good development practices
• Knowledge of real-time systems, high-performance computing, and quantitative applications an advantage
• Team player
• Fast learner
• A first experience in trading algo is a plus

If you are interested in this role please feel free to contact me on:

Email – shoibe@durlstonpartners.com

Phone – +447400803306

Referrals are appreciated and well-rewarded!

Machine Learning Engineer – New York City – Up to $600k base + Bonus

How does a systematic, quantitative investment firm that focuses on generating alpha in the cryptocurrency space post positive returns every month since inception, whilst the assets they trade have been doing the opposite?

Pretty simple – hire the best talent, coming from the likes of Citadel, Susquehanna, Five Rings Capital, AQR, DRW, and leading academic professors from schools like Stanford, MIT, and UPenn/Wharton.

According to their documentation, they are currently managing around $150 million in 3 different funds (different strategies, DeFi, HFT, MEV, stat arb) with the scope to scale in the billions in a few years.

They are looking for a switched-on ML Engineer to join them.

The role involves building and constantly improving their cloud-native research infrastructure, building end-to-end ML pipelines, and optimizing ML algorithms to handle distributed training over massive data sets (they gather and store >40TB per day of memory pool data).

Strong programming ability in Python is needed. Intermediate C++ experience is a nice to have. Experience with technologies such as AWS EC2/Batch or their counterparts, Airflow, Spark, and Kubernetes is also nice to have.

Looking for someone with experience working with cloud-based research environments and machine learning workflows.

If you are interested please get in touch: karolis@durlstonpartners.com

All shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 48 hours.

Machine Learning Engineer – New York City – Up to $600k base + Bonus

A London based DeFi protocol, incubated by a hedge fund management company are currently searching for a full-stack engineer to join their growing team.

The firm, who are fully set up for remote working is composed of deeply experienced TradFi and crypto specialists working on a Web3.0 platform.

This is a great opportunity for someone who has a true passion for decentralisation and is keen to transition from Web2.0 to Web3.0. You will work with designers, blockchain developers and product owners to bring products to life, handle front end and back end requirements to integrate blockchain data and transactions.

Requirements:

• Coding experience with Javascript: NodeJS/Express on backend and ReactJS on frontend.
• Knowledge of unit and end to end testing frameworks such as Jest
• Working knowledge of SQL, noSQL and GraphDBs
• Working knowledge of state management using React Redux

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus + token exposure further down the line
• Exposure to international team of professionals from TradFi and Crypto.
• Flat and cross-functional team which offers learning opportunities.

If you are interested in this role please apply or contact me directly at danny@durlstonpartners.com

Our client has built a state of the art Crypto Trading platform offering investors, that connects investors to global exchanges in real-time, with the benefit of multi-currency exposure.

Their system is a full OMS, PMS and EMS, and has been built with industry-leading cloud technologies to provide scale and global deployment.

They are looking to hire Software Engineers at different stages of their career, from a variety of OOP backgrounds, who are keen to work in Go – no need for an endless list of requirements, we’re simply looking for high calibre, dedicated, collaborative and passionate software developers – If you think you fit the bill, please apply.

Python Developer – FinTech – London & Paris – up to £150k base

Our client is a quantitative and systematic investment manager with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Paris, and Singapore. Their market presence is global and expands across the largest liquid electronic venues in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America. They combine, trading expertise, research, and new technologies to achieve high-quality returns for investors.

Skill and Experience Required:

• BSc or Higher in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of Software engineering experience in writing high-quality, testable in an object-oriented environment.
• Prior experience with Python and Rest APIs.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of modern software architecture and cloud platforms.
• Experience in the financial services industry

Other preferred skills:

• Experience with query optimization and performance tuning
• AWS, Kubernetes, docker, Helm
• Experience with message queues
• Experience with more than 1 programming language

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for building and delivering solutions to our Risk Management and Trading desks.

Asset Management Firm – Python Quant Developer – Up to £140k Base + Bonus

Our client is a global, alternative investment management firm operating across a broad range of derivatives-based strategies with a deep understanding of volatility. With approximately $9 billion of AUM, offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Stamford, Boston, and Los Angeles.

Responsibilities:

• Analytical work to research, implement and support pricing and risk models for different asset classes.
• Development work on server-side processes as part of a micro-service infrastructure.
• The role is part of the firm’s core dev team, and within that its front-office support specialists; this sub-team supports several trading desks globally.

Requirements:

• Programming skills in at least one language from C++, Java, C#, and, Python.
• Financial products knowledge in at least one asset class from Fixed income, FX, Equities, and Credit.
• Financial modelling (vanilla and exotic products, probability and stochastic calculus, Monte Carlo, numerical methods).
• Working knowledge of SQL databases.
• Ability to communicate efficiently and concisely in writing and verbally.
• 1-3 years experience.

We are working with one of the fastest growing global FinTech working across the digital assets space. By leveraging a team of industry experts with substantial experience in alternative investment management and working with a modern tech stack, our client provides market infrastructure to support institutions’ access to digital assets markets.

As they continue their growth journey, they are looking to add Frontend Engineers to their team. Building on your previous UI experience and React and Type/JavaScript skills, you will be working on creating the best user experience for the firm’s clients.

If you want to be solving high impact problems, get out of red tape and join a start-up with strong market presence and financial backing in a diverse team that values passion, respect, teamwork and excellence, this could be the place for you.

People are not checklists: if you are curious about this opportunity, but not sure if it’s the perfect match, please apply attaching your CV or emailing it to nicole@durlstonpartners.com and a member of the team will get back to you asap.
Feel free to email nicole@durlstonpartners.com or contact me on LinkedIn if you want to arrange a discreet discussion about any of the current openings with Durlston Partners’ client base.

Durlston Partners have partnered with one of Europe’s largest hedge funds. The Hedge fund firm is looking for an ambitious java developer to work on a greenfield trade execution and order management platform.

This is a key position for the business and as a java developer, you would have the opportunity to work across high-impact features where you will be constantly challenged in a fast-paced tech-driven environment.

Requirements:

• Experienced Java development skills. Distributed systems REST, Event-Driven processing.
• Database development/analysis
• Test-driven development Performance testing, analysis, and improvement
• Financial Services Experience
• Professional experience with a server-side language, ideally java +, ideally 11 or 17

I will respond to all successful candidates shortlisted for this opportunity within 48 hours. If you are interested in other roles, please feel free to contact me at Ashwin@durlstonpartners.com as well as follow Durlston Partners to be kept informed.

Our client is set to become one of the biggest game changer protocols in DeFi once launched. Right now the team is operating behind closed doors. However, even without public coverage infrastructure and trading models are being built in anticipation of the launch.

You would be joining at a very early stage of the project and work directly with the founders. This would give you an opportunity to learn from the best talent in the industry. They operate at some exceptional standards and would expect someone ready to dive in and work hard to meet the same level of commitment.

On a daily basis you would be responsible for laying down secure development processes through architecting, writing, reviewing, and maintaining all parts of the protocol’s smart contract stack.

You will  be joining a collaborative team where your contributions and ideas will have a direct impact on the success of the company. If you love DeFi, Crypto and engineering then keep reading.

Requirements:

• Remarkable academics
• Solidity development experience
• Deep understanding of Ethereum
• Extensive exposure to blockchain fundamentals
• Design, test, review smart contracts that hold material funds

Benefits:

• Remote
• Ownership in the form of tokens
• Unlimited Holiday

We are working with a crypto fund in New York that despite operating in an incredibly challenging environment continues to benefit enormously from general liquidity and activity in the market. Backed by some of the biggest names on the traditional Buy-Side, this firm has been posting positive returns every month since they went live, whilst every single crypto has been going the opposite way.

As part of a team build out, the Market-Neutral Crypto Quant Fund (CeFi & DeFi) is looking to bring on a Data Engineer who can scale their data sets to Petabytes worth. For context 1PB is the equivalent of 11,000 4k films (~100GB each).

The opportunity:

• Design ETL workflows
• Build storage and retrieval solutions for the wide variety of data sets used in research
• Scale said data sets to petabytes worth
• Onboard new datasets, including traditional finance data and alternative data
• An integral part of a small but growing team whose employees include Olympiad Winners, an ethical blockchain hacker and top-of-the-class students from top global universities.

Requirements:

• Bulletproof Computer Science fundamentals
• Exceptional programming ability in Python
• Experience designing ETL workflows
• 3+ years managing tick-data or other large data sets

We have partnered with one of the UK’s fastest growing FinTechs who made no layoffs during the crypto winter. They continued hiring throughout thanks to a significant round of funding, a solid product and an avoidance of rapid scaling for the sake of scaling. This company is positioned to embark an exciting growth journey due to exceptional demand for their platform.

They are currently seeking a seasoned engineer who can develop post trade features such as position and risk reporting, trade booking, settlement, and reconciliation processes. An exceptional customer experience is central to this firm. Your opportunity is to develop sophisticated tools that instantly update P&L to meet clients’ reporting and compliance requirements.

Requirements:

• Deep SQL knowledge (SQL Server, Postgres SQL or other RDBMS)
• Experience developing post trade functionality
• An advocate of the SDLC

Benefits:

• Strong equity
• Hybrid working
• Working for one of the UK’s fastest growing FinTech companies
• Huge responsibility from Day 1. Be the owner of your own learning curve. The possibilities are limitless and depend on you

You take pride in using your tech skills to solve deeply challenging problems alongside intellectually driven colleagues at the forefront of financial markets. You enjoy taking initiative and are motivated to make an actual impact in the organisation while learning valuable transferable skills. Currently as an engineer, you may feel that your long term progression has stagnated or your work is undervalued compared to other aspects of the business.

If this sounds familiar, why not consider other opportunities?

We’re looking for a talented Frontend Software Engineer to join a rapidly expanding global FinTech start-up with the best in class crypto market access platform for Banks, FinTechs and Corporates. The firm has raised $100mil in the past 2 years to invest in their engineers in order to create an end to end full trading lifecycle platform with low latency and single API connectivity to global crypto venues.

The Role:

• Develop new products and bespoke features
• Leverage commercial understanding of the product to improve the decision making process
• Collaborate with engineers, senior leadership, and designers to positively influence the future of the firm

The Environment:

• Small and flat-structured teams with high visibility that create a fast track towards career progression
• An autonomous culture guided by shared aspirations of continuous self-development
• Tech driven, purely greenfield projects with an emphasis on the right tool for the job

What you’ll need to be considered:

• Highly capable engineering skill set and CompSci fundamentals
• Professional experience with Javascript(Typescript preferred), React, Cloud
• Interest in Golang & passion for Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Assets space

I will respond to all successful candidates shortlisted for this opportunity within 48 hours. If you are interested in other roles, please feel free to contact me at dante@durlstonpartners.com as well as follow Durlston Partners to be kept informed.

Engineering Manager – Crypto FinTech – Up to £170k base + Stock options – Fully Remote (UK / US)

One of our favourite clients is a leading and well-established FinTech within the Crypto space with significant funding behind them to build a financial system that is open, trusted, and accessible to all.

Consistently listed in numerous publications as one of the top FinTechs to watch out for as well as a ‘Best Place to Work’ they’ve attracted talented Engineers from all the major Big Tech firms and looking to add an exceptional Engineering Manager to join their growing team. They operate in a flat and collaborative structure to reduce red tape

About the role

This is an impactful role across the business where you’ll have decision-making responsibilities on the technical direction of the company including architectural guidance, mentoring and leading other engineers, reviewing new technologies, and leading best practices. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with pioneers outside the company who are also looking at blockchain adoption

A bit more about the roles and responsibilities

• Technical ownership over major components of the codebase once you’ve developed a deep understanding of their technology stack (relevant to your area of the business)
• Guide technical direction across multiple teams, including choices around language/framework and system architecture/infrastructure
• Stakeholder management across the business, communicating across all levels both technical and non-technical individual contributors and senior leaders
• Improve developer experience by adopting tools and best practices that raise productivity for the entire engineering organization
• Owning the team’s output and taking responsibility for your team’s performance
• Ramping up on relevant industry updates and trends, immersing yourself in blockchain technology

Requirements:

• Experience managing a product development focused Engineering team
• Experience building modern systems and services using tools such as Go, Kotlin, AWS & Kubernetes
• Excellent communication skills to effectively get ideas and instructions across the business to all levels
• Building high scale/complex distributed systems
• Building scalable APIs, backend and full-stack services

Nice to haves:

• Hands-on – expertise in multiple business and technology domains
• Demonstrated understanding of core engineering concepts and computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms, and other key Engineering competencies
• Capable of establishing goals for the technology stack, identifying areas of critical need based on future growth, and developing roadmaps to solve those problems.
• Experienced in mentoring and coaching individual contributors during 1:1s and code reviews to level them up over time

Why you should join this company:

• They care about personal development and offer quarterly allowances for exactly that
• Given they’re fully remote, they offer an allowance to set up your home office – you can of course go into their office if remote work isn’t for you
• Health insurance and family leave
• Unlimited annual leave

I will respond to all successful candidates shortlisted for this opportunity within 48 hours.