Staff/Senior Trading Technology Engineer

The Role

Ethena has quickly established itself as the fastest growing and most innovative financial product utilising digital asset technology to date. The Trading Technology team is 3 exceptional engineers from the highest quality trading environments. Joining them you share in the full responsible for the overall strategy, development, and maintenance of Ethena’s trading platform. Which sits at the heart of, and powers, its flagship products: USDe & sUSDe.

The role reports to the Team Lead. Our focus is on high-quality engineering, resilient system design, development-velocity, and delivering best-in-class execution capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to Building a Greenfield, Best-in-Class, Next-Gen Trading Platform: Own large elements of designing and implementing a robust trading platform that ensures efficient execution of large trade sizes with minimal slippage.
• Develop Market Data and Execution Capabilities: Build high-performance market data pipelines and ensure seamless integration with multiple trading venues (REST/WS, FIX, and other protocols).
• Own Delivery of New Product and Feature Development: Collaborate with quant and trading teams to develop and implement new trading strategies and execution logic.
• Foster Software Excellence: Apply modern software development best practices, such as TDD, BDD, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and SOLID principles.
• Optimize for Performance and Resilience: Design fault-tolerant architectures with failover mechanisms to ensure high availability and reliability.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive Experience in Trading Systems Development: Track record of building and supporting trading infrastructure from the ground up, including market data feed handlers, algo engines, backtesting frameworks, and execution platforms.
• Strong Software Engineering Fundamentals: Expertise in modern development practices (TDD, BDD, CI/CD, SOLID), how to write modular, clean, code, and resilient system design.
• Deep Understanding of Financial Markets: Strong knowledge of trading mechanisms, security protocols, and infrastructure management across multiple venues.
• Experience with Crypto Trading Venues and Derivatives: Hands-on experience working with centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) and trading instruments such as perpetual swaps and deliverable futures.
• Multi-Venue Trading Experience: Understanding of order routing, trade reconciliation, and execution quality optimization across multiple trading venues.
• High-Performance System Design: Expertise in optimizing for system performance, ensuring low-latency execution, high throughput, and execution quality.
• Excellent Problem-Solving Skills: Strong ability to break down complex challenges into actionable solutions and make strategic technical decisions.
• Passion for Testing and Automation: Strong advocate for TDD, BDD, and test automation with hands-on experience in unit, integration, regression, performance, and end-to-end testing.