Description:

We are a team of highly-driven individuals who are passionate about technology, algorithmic trading, and solving intellectually challenging problems.
Being a part of Sparkland means you get to work with some of the brightest people in one of the world’s fastest-growing and most exciting industries.
We are fully remote and have a flat corporate structure that values open-mindedness, entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to excellence, and continuous learning.
We are looking for a Middle Software Engineer (C++) who has experience with high-load applications.
You will be working on developing and optimizing trading systems, algorithms, and connections to cryptocurrency exchanges.
If you have worked with systems where every microsecond counts and everything needs to run fast and smoothly, you might be a good candidate for this role.
Responsibilities include developing and maintaining connections to cryptocurrency exchanges and data providers, troubleshooting market data issues, developing new features, working together with different teams to ensure the correct behavior of algorithms, and helping with fixing small bugs.

Requirements:

A minimum of 3 years of experience in software development is required.
Extensive experience in C++ is necessary.
Experience working with high-load applications is essential.
A good understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms is required.
A good understanding of networking concepts is necessary.
Knowledge in financial markets and low latency/high-frequency systems and/or distributed systems is required.
Bonus points for experience with Python, Kafka, networking protocols REST/Websockets/FIX, and AWS, Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus.

We offer flexible working hours and a healthy work-life balance.
Our team is remote-first.
You will have the ability to work in a thriving, multicultural, and fun environment in one of the fastest-growing industries in the world.
We provide corporate workations, where we regularly go on corporate trips to cool places all over the world to get to know each other better, work, and explore the local culture (covid pandemics allowing).