Senior Software Engineer - Product

About this role

## Who are we?

ElectronX is the first U.S.-regulated, direct access electricity derivatives market, offering financial products to address volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. With offices in Chicago and New York City, ElectronX is building the missing financial infrastructure and risk management tools necessary to smooth the path for U.S. energy production, diversification and grid expansion in a time of rapidly increasing power demand.

ElectronX is a venture capital-backed startup supported by premier VC partners including Innovation Endeavors, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures LLC, DCVC, Amplo, BoxGroup and Lightning Capital.

## Who are we looking for?

As a fast-growing company in the highly competitive, quantitative capital markets industry, ElectronX values candidates who are resourceful, curious and adaptable to change. Our cultural focus on innovation requires collaborative and entrepreneurial teammates with the intellectual grit necessary for near- and long-term success.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help build the foundation of our exchange. You’ll ship the core trading infrastructure our market runs on: the matching engine, market data distribution, our customer-facing trading interface, APIs for market participants and clearinghouses, real-time surveillance and monitoring, and the data pipelines behind trade reporting and analytics. You’ll own architectural decisions that balance performance, reliability, and CFTC regulatory requirements, and weave security and compliance into how we build. Beyond the code, you’ll help evolve our engineering principles as the team grows, mentor new hires, and partner closely with Product, Design, Compliance, Infrastructure, and our earliest customers to turn real market needs into production systems.

## What will you be doing?

*Build Core Exchange Infrastructure*

• Design and implement our trading engine, order matching system, and market d...