APAC Core Services Team Lead

About us

At Auros, we’re dedicated to advancing the cryptocurrency ecosystem through unparalleled liquidity and market-making services. We’re one of the largest participants in the market, trading across 10+ global locations, facilitating 3-4% of global daily volumes, and have connectivity to over 50 venues.

What sets us apart, though, is our culture. We believe in hiring smart people and empowering them to do their best work. From day one you’ll have the autonomy and support to really excel. Our relentless focus on delivery drives us to continuously push boundaries and achieve exceptional results, all while offering abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth in the dynamic realm of digital assets.

The Opportunity

• Lead Core Systems Development: Manage and mentor a team of developers responsible for building and maintaining our mission-critical core trading systems. These systems cover everything from exchange connectivity and P&L calculations to middle-office functions and token transfers.
• Drive Technical Strategy: Take ownership of the technical roadmap for the our core systems suite of applications - balancing the need for high-performance, robust applications with business priorities and speed to market.
• Bridge Business & Tech: Take the lead in translating traders’ connectivity and business requirements into seamless, high-performance solutions. Support and mentor team members in doing this requirements analysis and design.
• Elevate Engineering Standards: Champion engineering best practices, with a strong focus on enhancing system reliability, monitoring, and overall code quality.
• Operational Excellence: Provide leadership in troubleshooting and quickly resolving complex production issues in a fast-paced trading environment.

Who you are

• Extensive HFT Experience: You have extensive experience building highly performant, complex backend systems and microservices architectures, ideally from a leading HFT environment. You thrive on the challenge of dealing with massive data throughput at low latency.
• Core Technical Skills: You are an expert in Python and have a working knowledge of C++. Experience with TypeScript is an added bonus.
• Capital Markets Expertise: You have a strong understanding of exchange APIs, websockets, and critical low-latency communication protocols.
• Leadership: You excel at leading and mentoring development teams, setting technical strategy, and driving a culture of engineering excellence.
• Excellent Attention to Detail: Your strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail allow you to troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues quickly and effectively.
• Autonomy: You are effective in a fast-paced, autonomous environment, and can work with minimal oversight.

What We Offer in Return

• Opportunity to work at the forefront of the digital asset industry
• Remote and flexible work
• Autonomy and a flat structure means you can contribute your ideas from day one and help shape the foundation that will power our future business.

At Auros, we value nimbleness, drive for success, owner mentality, and collaboration. Join us in shaping the future of financial services across Asia and beyond!