Key Responsibilities:

• Assess and evaluate the firm's existing trading infrastructure and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for trading systems.

• Determine what should be optimised, refactored, or rebuilt to maximise performance and reliability.

• Own the execution architecture, exchange connectivity, and system resilience of the trading platform.

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineering teams across backend, frontend, and infrastructure disciplines.

• Partner closely with trading teams to transform strategic concepts into production-ready systems.

• Establish engineering standards covering deployment, monitoring, testing, and incident response.

• Improve operational excellence, observability, and system reliability across the trading stack.

• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience within cryptocurrency market-making, proprietary trading, high-frequency trading, or equivalent environments.

• Deep hands-on experience building and operating low-latency trading systems.

• Direct experience developing cross-exchange arbitrage and/or market-making infrastructure.

• Strong proficiency in Rust and/or Go.

• Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams and technical delivery.

• Strong understanding of trading system design, exchange integrations, and performance optimisation.

• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical decision-making.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Fluent English communication skills.

Preferred Experience:

• C++ experience within latency-sensitive environments.

• Python experience for research, tooling, or backtesting applications.

• Experience designing monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks.

• Knowledge of both spot and derivatives trading environments, including futures and perpetual products.

• Background within proprietary trading firms, market makers, or high-performance financial technology organisations.

• Turkish language proficiency.

Ideal Candidate:

• Combines technical depth with strong leadership capability.

• Thrives in fast-moving and performance-driven environments.

• Makes pragmatic decisions around rebuilding versus optimising existing systems.

• Maintains a hands-on approach while empowering engineering teams.

• Understands the realities of operating mission-critical trading infrastructure.

• Values integrity, professionalism, and respect for confidentiality obligations.

Additional Information:

• Remote-first working model with occasional travel requirements.

• Full-time engagement is preferred.

• Short-term advisory or consulting arrangements may also be considered for exceptional candidates.

• Significant upside potential reflective of the strategic nature of the role.