About us

Aquanow is a trading and technology company powering the next generation of financial services. We're at the forefront of the rapidly evolving digital asset space, empowering businesses to navigate the complexities of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. As a leading provider of infrastructure solutions, we offer innovative services in cryptocurrency trading, liquidity management, and secure digital asset storage. Our platform is built to deliver seamless, scalable, and reliable solutions that cater to the needs of institutional clients and businesses seeking to unlock the potential of digital finance. Aquanow is committed to driving growth and shaping the future of the digital economy by offering unparalleled opportunities for innovation and advancement in the world of digital assets.

With rapid global expansion, we have established offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Dubai, Malaysia, Turkey, and beyond. Our international customer base includes some of the world's fastest-growing fintech companies and leading financial institutions.

Your Contribution to Our Growth

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative Market Operations team! This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with experienced professionals in a rapidly expanding industry at the forefront of digital finance. In this role, you'll contribute to the development and maintenance of our Market Operations services, ensuring top-tier quality and maintaining the highest standards of performance and reliability.

As part of our team, you'll be responsible for designing, architecting, implementing, testing, documenting, and monitoring our services while applying industry best practices. You'll primarily be working on Market Operations functionality including Liquidity Provider integrations, Price Generation, Order Matching Engine, Execution Management, etc. You'll work in an agile environment, where collaboration and adaptability are key. Your expertise will help drive our commitment to excellence and innovation, ensuring that we deliver secure and scalable solutions to our clients.

In order to be successful in this role, we're seeking a strong professional background in the financial, fintech, crypto industry. If you've worked on similar projects we'd love to hear from you! Please note that this is a full-time, permanent, hybrid role out of our Downtown Toronto office.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, test and maintain a variety of Market Operations functionality including Liquidity Provider integration, Price Generation, Order Matching, Order Routing, and Execution Management.
• Deliver well tested, fault tolerant, production ready solutions.
• Contribute to decision making on solution trade offs for scalability and performance options
• Document procedures for our technical and business operations teams.
• Collaborate with other development teams to ensure the Market Operations functionality is successfully integrated into the business platform.
• Collaborate with the QA team to ensure delivered functionality is included in the platform testing.
• Integrate with CI infrastructure continuous build and test cycle.
• Be part of the agile team; help thoroughly define, plan and test each task that is part of the sprint.
• Mentor junior developers on the team and lead implementation of large complexity features.
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, and team productivity.

We'd Love to See

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Strong knowledge and experience with SDLC, CI/CD practices and tools.
• Strong knowledge and experience with object oriented design, database, networks and API design.
• Strong knowledge and experience with Kafka, Java, and Javascript.
• Strong knowledge and experience with AWS services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work independently with a collaboration focused mindset.
• Comfortable working with learning and working with existing codebase.

These are not strict requirements to thrive in this role. We believe that people can learn and understand technologies if they are willing. We encourage you to still apply if some of the requirements are missing or lacking.

At our offices you will find a group of people that embrace diversity and value performance over pedigree. Every day we draw value from the diverse experiences of our team whose backgrounds include top financial institutions, tech companies and untraditional backgrounds. Our success comes from identifying exceptional people and providing them with the platform to reach their true potential.

Aquanow is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, qualified veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other unlawful criterion or circumstance.