Blockchain Engineer

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Flow Traders Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Back-End Blockchain Engineer to join our growing Digital Assets Technology team. This is a unique opportunity to work at a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture. We value sharp, creative minds and challenge our engineers to leverage their full potential in a high-performance environment. This will be a hybrid role based in Amsterdam.

What you will do

  • Work closely with trading desks to develop scalable and low-latency solutions for DEX Trading
  • Contribute to the architecture and development of high-performance, real-time trading systems for DeFi markets
  • Encourage the team to grow our Blockchain understanding bringing in protocol-specific knowledge and best practices
  • Develop and maintain on-chain and off-chain components, including smart contracts, indexers, and market-making bots
  • Implement robust APIs and integrate with DeFi protocols, liquidity pools, and decentralized exchanges (DEXs)
  • Design and optimize event-driven microservices for real-time blockchain transaction processing
  • Ensure high availability, reliability, and security of blockchain-based back-end systems
  • Collaborate with Quantitative Researchers, Traders, and Software Engineers to identify and implement automation and acceleration strategies for the Digital Assets desk
  • Follow the best software engineering practices which are supported by the best working environment, latest technology and continuous support from all parts of Flow Traders organization

What You Need To Succeed

  • BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields
  • 5+ years of commercial experience in software development
  • Strong expertise in one or more back-end programming languages: Python, Rust, Go, Java
  • Solid experience in DeFi development (protocol interactions, arbitrage, liquidity management).
  • Strong blockchain knowledge, including nodes, consensus mechanisms (PoW, PoS), and Web3
  • Experience with smart contract development in Solidity and/or Rust
  • Deep understanding of backend architecture, including scalable distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven processing
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Understanding of security best practices in blockchain and back-end development (e.g., private key management, transaction signing, API security)
  • Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, gRPC, and WebSockets for real-time data processing
  • Experience working with on-chain data analysis, indexers, and oracles, a plus
  • Knowledge of MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) strategies and blockchain transaction ordering, a plus
  • Prior experience working in low-latency, high-performance trading environment, a plus

Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for our London office.
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

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