Senior Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Trading

What you'll do

• Own the architecture of the real-time, cross-asset risk and margin engine.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput risk systems that maintain correctness and performance.
• Manage reliability and performance by owning SLOs, observability, and incident response.
• Set technical standards through code, design reviews, and paying down critical technical debt.
• Serve as the risk-architecture anchor by mentoring engineers and reducing single-point-of-failure risks.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate technical vision into a product roadmap.
• Deploy and support 24/7 risk systems that process billions of dollars in daily transactions.

What we're looking for

• Hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting 24/7 risk systems processing billions of dollars daily.
• Extensive backend engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems.
• Track record of architecting cross-asset risk systems for crypto, equities, FCM, or derivatives with real-time portfolio evaluation.
• Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging like Aeron or SBE for event-driven, high-availability systems.
• Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in a regulated financial environment.
• Experience delivering projects end-to-end, including scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
• Experience balancing engineering trade-offs with end-user quality through shipped products.
• Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.