Head of Risk Platform Engineering

Overview

Coin Desk is the trusted media, events, indices and data company for the global crypto economy. Since 2013 Coin Desk Media has led the story of the future of money and investing, illuminating the transformation in society and culture that comes with it. Our award-winning team of journalists delivers news and unparalleled insights that bring transparency, comprehension and context. Coin Desk Events gathers the global crypto, blockchain and Web3 communities at annual events such as Consensus, the world’s largest and longest-running crypto festival.

Coin Desk Indices offers expertise in digital asset indices, data and research to educate and empower investors.

In November 2023 Coin Desk was acquired by the Bullish group, owner of Bullish, a regulated digital assets exchange. Coin Desk operates as an independent subsidiary with an editorial committee to protect journalistic independence.

Reports to:

Vice President Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain robust high-performance microservices and stream processing pipelines to deliver timely data supporting Risk Management and Clearing functions.

• Develop a deep understanding of the data models and end-to-end data workflows across Risk Management and Clearing functions.

• Build and architect infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of external market data feeds.

• Prioritise non-functional requirements including, but not limited to, HA/DR, high-throughput and data freshness.

• Prioritise automated testing and maintain high standards for code quality and SDLC best practices.

• Contribute to the evolution of the platform’s target-state architecture.

• Be an opinionated self-starter who takes a strong sense of ownership and excels at distilling complex requirements.

• Stay current with industry trends to drive continuous improvement in the platform.

• Work within a global team (HK, SG, UK) coordinating closely with Product Managers, Quants and other Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 10 years of professional experience in software development.

• Applicable financial domain knowledge, particularly with options, futures and market data.

• Experience providing technical oversight for financial risk management related to options and futures.

• Expertise in Java and experience building mission-critical high-throughput systems.

• Demonstrated experience with stream processing pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink) and microservices architecture.

• Hands-on experience with databases (e.g., SQL/No-SQL like Redis, Postgres, Mongo
  
  DB).

• Well-versed in designing data structures, event schemas and database schemas.

• Strong SQL skills and strong analytical skills.

• Solid and opinionated knowledge of testing methodologies, coding principles and coding standards.

• Well-versed with standard SDLC practices and tooling around build, test, deploy, etc.

• Hands-on with a strong sense of ownership.

• Ability to operate and thrive in a dynamic startup environment.

• Passionate about knowledge sharing and mentoring.

• Eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

Bonus Experience

• Familiarity with cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP), modern Dev Ops tooling (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, DBT).

• Familiarity with big data management and data lake ecosystems (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Big Query).

• Experience with BI technologies for data visualization (Tableau, Superset) or delivering simple web-based UIs (React).

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

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ACCOMMODATION

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Required Experience

Director

Head Of Engineering – London, England, UK