Staff Engineer, Trading Automation and Backend Platforms

Flow Traders is looking for a Staff Engineer to join us in our Amsterdam office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. We are looking for a senior individual contributor to lead the architectural and technical direction for our Trading Automation and Backend Engineering teams. Operating across the full trade lifecycle (pre-trade execution and post-trade) you will bridge the gap between engineering trading and operations. As a Staff Engineer you will tackle ambiguous large-scale problems set global engineering standards and scale your impact by mentoring tech leads and engineers across multiple teams.

What you will do

Strategic Architecture & Vision Define and own the long-term technical architecture for our trading automation risk and post-trade platforms. Translate complex ambiguous business problems into clear executable technical roadmaps. Architect scalable event-driven systems optimized for high throughput data integrity and reliability. Engineering Leadership & Mentorship Elevate engineering standards across the organization focusing on system design observability reliability and scalability. Act as an IC multiplier mentor senior engineers guide tech leads and drive technical alignment across fragmented systems. Lead efforts to responsibly decommission legacy systems in favor of modern scalable services. Business & Operational Impact Partner closely with trading quant risk and operations teams to align technical choices with business value. Drive automation in post-trade and middle-office workflows (allocations settlements reconciliations) to drastically reduce operational risk. What you need to succeed 10+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record operating at a Staff Principal or cross-team Lead level. Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and drive consensus across multiple teams. Deep expertise in building distributed high-performance and highly reliable backend systems. Strong proficiency in at least one (or more) core backend language (Python Go C++ or Java).Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka Flink Databricks Dataproc) and data pipelines. Solid understanding of modern infrastructure observability and cloud platforms.

Nice to have

Deep knowledge of specific financial workflows (ETF creation/redemption clearing custody). Experience with financial reference data symbology or instrument modeling. Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (MiFID II EMIR SFTR) and their data lineage requirements. Solid background in financial services trading or market making. Strong working knowledge of the trading lifecycle (order flow execution and post-trade/settlement flows).

What we offer

At Flow Traders we create the conditions for hard‑working high‑performing people to do their best work. From a thorough onboarding and ongoing access to Flow Academy to latest technology and a collaborative non‑hierarchical culture we give you the tools ownership and support to move fast and drive outcomes. We keep a close‑knit small‑company feel while offering competitive salary annual discretionary profit share and comprehensive benefits so talent can grow here and stay here. See our benefits below Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences Daily catered lunch great coffee and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade table tennis billiards and game consoles Company boat In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer Bi-weekly massages Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year such as the New Years Event Global rotations across our offices worldwide and more 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