Senior Software Engineer, Strategy Development

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design, develop, and implement quantitative trading strategies, including market-making, arbitrage, and algorithmic execution using Golang and Python
• ▹Build and maintain sophisticated pricing models for a wide range of digital assets
• ▹Develop and enhance backtesting and market simulation frameworks to rigorously validate strategy performance and risk characteristics
• ▹Work closely with traders and quantitative researchers to translate trading ideas into robust, production-ready code
• ▹Contribute to the systems that manage strategy configuration, deployment, and real-time parameter tuning
• ▹Analyze strategy performance metrics and market data to identify opportunities for improvement and new alpha generation

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in a financial trading environment (hedge fund, prop trading firm, or investment bank)
• ▹Proficiency in a high-performance language (Golang/C++/Java/Rust) and experience with a data analysis language (e.g. Python)
• ▹Demonstrable experience building pricing models or algorithmic trading strategies
• ▹Strong understanding of financial market concepts, market microstructure, and common trading algorithms
• ▹Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
• ▹Fluent written and oral English skills

Nice to have

• ▹Experience building high-fidelity backtesting or market simulation environments from the ground up
• ▹Deep knowledge of cryptocurrency market structure, DeFi protocols, and on-chain data
• ▹Familiarity with data analysis libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, SciPy) and machine learning concepts
• ▹Experience working with large-scale time-series data and databases (e.g., KDB+, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB)

Soft skills

About the company

Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance, providing modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking, and investments to customers in more than 140 countries, and is always 100% reserved.