Mondrian Alpha
Software Engineer - Faster Than Finality | Ultra-Low Latency Cryptoasset Trading
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We have partnered with the digital asset arm of a household name in the HFT space
Decades of low-latency engineering discipline sit behind it: a mature C++ organisation, a dedicated performance engineering function, and internal tooling most firms never build. Every nanosecond is contested ground, and every cache miss is a bug.
That machinery is now pointed at the least efficient market they have ever traded. Crypto venues match faster than they settle, and the edge lives in that gap. The constraint is an engineering one, not a strategy one.
They're hiring a software engineer to own the core of the real-time execution platform: a system that ingests millions of market events per second and executes deterministically. Not usually. Deterministically.
What you'd own
- The hot path: zero-copy, lock-free pipelines, ring buffers, cache-aligned structures, and allocators you write yourself.
- Market data connectivity built per-venue and tuned to single-digit microsecond latency.
- Execution and order management where branch prediction and SIMD pricing logic are design inputs, not afterthoughts.
- Nanosecond-precision timestamping and clock synchronisation across distributed infrastructure.
- Direct work with quant researchers: their strategies are only worth what your execution delivers.
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Why this role
- Scale without the constraint. Deep balance sheet, no external investors, no quarterly story to tell. Long-horizon infrastructure work gets funded.
- A market that still rewards engineering. Fragmented venues, young protocols, real inefficiency. Latency buys edge here the way it stopped buying edge in equities a decade ago.
- People who have already done it. You'd be joining an established performance engineering culture rather than inventing one, and you won't be the only person in the building who thinks in cache lines.
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What you'd bring
- Primarily C++. Deep Rust backgrounds are equally interesting.
- You've built ultra-low latency systems in trading or an adjacent high-frequency domain.
- You're fluent in concurrency, memory ordering and real-time scheduling, and comfortable in perf, VTune and flamegraphs.
- You benchmark rather than assume. Data over instinct, every time.
- Crypto microstructure knowledge is a bonus, not a filter. Much of the desk came from equities, futures and options.
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