Selby Jennings Singapore
1 month ago
Trading Systems Engineer
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Company information
- Company
- Selby Jennings Singapore
- Location
- Singapore, Central, River Valley Singapore
- Posted
- 1 month ago
Job description
Trading Systems Engineer (Rust)
A quantitative trading firm is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to help build and scale a high-performance trading platform supporting live electronic trading across multiple venues.
Responsibilities- Develop and maintain exchange connectivity, including market data and order management systems
- Enhance and optimize low-latency trading infrastructure and execution systems
- Build and extend core platform components such as OMS, execution engines, and risk controls
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability of production trading systems
- Collaborate closely with traders and quantitative researchers to deliver production-ready solutions and trading tools
- Strong commercial experience with Rust, including concurrent and performance-focused applications
- At least 3 years of experience building backend systems in trading, market making, financial markets, or other latency-sensitive environments
- Experience developing exchange connectivity, market data, and trade execution systems
- Strong understanding of system profiling, performance optimization, and debugging
- Ability to work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable engineering solutions
- Python experience for tooling and prototyping
- Exposure to quantitative trading, risk management, or pricing systems
- Experience with live trading infrastructure and configuration management platforms
- Background in high-performance or low-latency systems
- Opportunity to work on mission-critical trading systems with direct business impact
- Close collaboration with traders and quantitative teams
- Exposure to complex engineering challenges in real-time trading environments
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
Required skills
- debugging
- python
- risk management
- rust
- traders
- tooling
- prototyping
- backend systems
- financial markets
- market data
- configuration management
- performance optimization
- production systems
- market making
- oms
- high-performance
- pricing systems
- electronic trading
- quantitative trading
- trading infrastructure
- high-performance systems
- low-latency
- order management systems
- risk controls
- low-latency systems
- exchange connectivity
- trade execution
- quantitative researchers
- latency-sensitive
- execution systems
- trading systems engineer
- system profiling
- live trading infrastructure
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