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These include:BullishExchange - a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar.CoinDeskIndices - a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries.CoinDeskData - a broad suite of digital assets market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics.CoinDeskInsights - a digital asset media and events provider and operator ofCoindesk.com, a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy, and blockchain technology.\nReports to:\nDirector, EngineeringEngineering Organization & Culture\nAt Bullish, we are engineering the institutional standard for the digital asset industry. Our mission is to build a platform where security and compliance are the foundational core, requiring a commitment to technical excellence that goes beyond simply delivering code. 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Our technical domain spans low-latency JVM optimization, zero-allocation hot paths and complex financial modeling.\nWe are seeking a highly experienced Java Backend Engineer to lead the development of our high-performance risk systems. You will leverage your extensive experience to build clean, maintainable, performant applications; promote best practices, and collaborate closely with our quantitative and product teams.\nWhat You’ll Do\nHigh-Performance JVM Engineering: Design and build high-quality, scalable and performant low/zero-GC JVM services and APIs\n\nTechnical Translation & Risk Modeling: Understand risk models & decompose complex business requirements into well tested implementations.\n\nStrategic Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate directly with quantitative analysts and product teams to build robust solutions for financial products and risk models.\n\nContinuous Codebase Optimization: Optimize and refactor the existing codebase to enhance testing, performance and maintainability\n\nEngineering Excellence: Be a bastion of code quality and best practices, paired with a performance mindset.\n\n What You’ll Bring\nProfessional Experience: 10+ years of experience as a Java backend engineer\n\nMindset and Ownership: Strong sense of ownership and ability to thrive in a dynamic startup environment.\n\nLanguage Mastery: Expert proficiency in Java, including hands-on experience in architecting highly performant, low-latency systems.\n\nTesting Methodologies: In-depth knowledge of testing methodologies, including TDD, back testing and stress testing\n\nSoftware Design Excellence: Well versed in Agile methodologies, DRY, Clean Code, API design and micro-services.\n\nTechnical Ecosystem: Experience in a full range of tools such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP\n\nFinancial Products Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of financial products, risk models and methodologies (SPAN, VaR etc)\n\nAnalytical Aptitude: Exceptional mathematical and analytical skills.\n\nEducational Foundation: Degree in Computer Science or related field\n\nNice To Haves\nFamiliarity with event-sourced architectures, columnar storage/databases, cloud technologies, Chronicle Queue, Kotlin\n\nExperience mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior engineers through pairing, collaboration and code reviews.\n\nBullish is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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