Cronos
Vice President Trading and Derivatives Tech
NEWHong Kong (Remote)Full-timeGlobal
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RemoteRemote work position availableActivePosted within the last 30 days
Job Description
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You will design and implement the core trading infrastructure end-to-end. You will build and operate a high-performance Central Limit Order Book and matching engine, implement perpetuals and margin accounting, and own liquidation and real-time risk systems. You will validate correctness through simulation and testing, lead adversarial and chaos testing, drive audit readiness, conduct architecture reviews, and mentor peers while maintaining rigorous reliability and performance standards.
Requirements
- āProduction CLOB experience designing building and operating a Central Limit Order Book in live trading environments
- āExperience shipping perpetuals and derivatives infrastructure with position accounting margin mechanics funding rates and liquidation systems
- āBuilt or owned a real-time risk engine including margin models and position exposure tracking
- ā8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years building and operating production trading infrastructure
- āProficiency in Rust Java or C++ at the systems level
- āStrong understanding of concurrency lock-free data structures memory layout and Linux internals
- āHands-on experience with high-throughput low-latency messaging infrastructure such as Aeron Chronicle Queue or Kafka
- āExperience with distributed systems state replication consistency models event-sourcing or WAL-based recovery
- āExperience with simulation-based property-based and adversarial testing and chaos engineering
Responsibilities
- āDesign and implement a high-performance Central Limit Order Book with correct handling of order types price-time priority and partial fills
- āArchitect the matching engine for correctness and low latency including crash recovery full state consistency and correctness guarantees under failure
- āBuild resilience against adversarial patterns and enforce pre-trade controls including self-trade prevention position limits and max-order-size checks
- āContribute to the hybrid CLOB and RFQ routing layer to provide best execution across onchain and offchain liquidity
- āImplement the perpetuals engine including position and margin accounting continuous unrealized PnL funding rate clamping and cross-collateralization
- āDesign and implement funding rate clamping cross-position settlement and protocol-level guarantees for correctness under concurrent load
- āOwn the liquidation system including partial-to-full liquidation escalation auto-deleveraging insurance fund mechanics and circuit breakers
- āOwn the real-time risk calculation layer including margin models position exposure and system-level invariants
- āDefine and maintain correctness guarantees through automated testing simulation and continuous validation
- āLead adversarial testing and chaos simulation to proactively surface failure modes
- āDrive external audit preparation and participate in security and technical reviews
- āConduct architecture reviews and challenge designs at the implementation level
- āMentor and elevate the trading systems through code review design sessions and hands-on collaboration
Tech Stack
concurrencymemory layoutRisk engineCLOBmarginperpetualslock-free data structurefunding rateliquidationPnL