Staff Software Engineer - Margin & Risk
Core
Design and build mission-critical margin and risk systems spanning equities, options, crypto, and emerging asset classes to calculate margin, enforce real-time exposure limits, and manage margin calls.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Margin & Risk)
Builds
Infrastructure for margin calculation, real-time risk enforcement, and margin call management
Domain
Financial services / Distributed systems
Required skills
Go, Java, C++, or Rust, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, service-oriented architecture, low-latency system design, high-throughput system design, transactional integrity, system reliability, technical leadership, mentoring
Preferred skills
Margin methodologies (Reg T, portfolio margin, options spread margin), brokerage/clearing/exchange/ledger experience, options/derivatives knowledge, Temporal, observability, production performance tuning
Responsibilities
Own architecture and technical roadmap for margin and risk capabilities, design and build highly reliable services translating financial rules into systems, lead real-time risk enforcement on the order path, drive reliability and performance across mission-critical services, partner with product, operations, and compliance teams, establish engineering standards for transactional integrity and safe deployments, lead architecture reviews and mentor engineers, serve as senior technical escalation point for production incidents, contribute directly to critical systems through design and implementation
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership