Joseph Anthony Group
Lead Systems Architect (Crypto)
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Lead Systems Architect (Crypto)
Trading Systems Architect
We're working with a leading proprietary trading firm seeking a Trading Systems Architect to help design, build, and scale the next generation of trading infrastructure across multiple electronic and digital asset markets. This is a highly technical leadership role focused on architecting and operating production trading systems that support live capital deployment.
The ideal candidate combines deep systems engineering expertise with a strong understanding of market structure, execution, and risk management.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design and evolve trading system architecture, execution infrastructure, and operational frameworks supporting live trading activities
- Build and enhance real-time, event-driven trading systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
- Partner with business and trading stakeholders to evaluate new trading opportunities, infrastructure requirements, and implementation trade-offs
- Develop risk management, inventory management, and operational control frameworks to support production trading environments
- Lead the deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of trading strategies in live markets
- Drive strategic decisions around:
- Exchange connectivity
- Market data processing
- Order management
- Execution systems
- Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and market risks early
- Contribute to simulation, testing, replay, monitoring, and observability platforms that improve trading system resilience
- Collaborate within an AI-augmented engineering environment, leveraging modern tooling to accelerate development and operations
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- 12+ years of experience within electronic trading, quantitative infrastructure, market-making, HFT, or systematic trading environments
- Proven ability to build and operate production trading systems managing significant capital exposure
- Strong software engineering background in Rust, Python, or C++ with performance-sensitive production experience
- Expertise in:
- Distributed systems
- Concurrency
- Networking
- Low-latency architecture design
- Experience designing:
- Real-time event-driven systems
- Exchange connectivity
- Order management platforms
- Market data infrastructure
- Deep understanding of:
- Market microstructure
- Liquidity dynamics
- Adverse selection
- Inventory management
- Execution quality
- Experience operating through volatile market conditions, including periods of elevated market stress
- Track record partnering directly with traders, portfolio managers, founders, or business leaders on trading initiatives
- Ability to balance technical excellence with practical business and operational considerations
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