Bratislava, Slovakia Hybrid 80,000 € – 150,000 € per year

Wincent is hiring a Software Engineer - Trading Core

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Trading Core team, you will design and maintain mission-critical systems that power a next-generation trading platform. Your focus will be on delivering real-time data from multiple cryptocurrency exchanges with minimal delay, enabling fast and accurate trading decisions.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop and optimize high-throughput, low-latency services to retrieve and process market data from diverse trading venues
  • Implement reliable order routing mechanisms for creating, modifying, and canceling trades across multiple exchanges
  • Transform and standardize heterogeneous data feeds into a unified internal format for downstream systems
  • Ensure model outputs are delivered to matching engines with maximum efficiency and minimal latency
  • Monitor system behavior in production and participate in on-call rotations to maintain stability and correctness

What We’re Looking For

  • At least five years of experience in building and tuning high-performance, distributed systems
  • Strong grasp of algorithms, data analysis, and low-level optimization techniques
  • Proven ability to operate independently—owning projects from design to deployment
  • Experience with distributed environments, scalability challenges, and performance engineering
  • Direct communication style: comfortable voicing concerns, debating decisions, and committing fully once direction is set

Technology

The core system is built in Rust, chosen for its performance and safety guarantees in concurrent, low-latency environments.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary typically between 80,000 € and 150,000 € per year, with potential for higher compensation based on expertise
  • Performance bonuses awarded every six months, with top performers earning bonuses exceeding 50% of base pay
  • Equity included in the package, with regular revaluation and consistent upward adjustments
  • Opportunity to invest in a flagship multi-strategy fund, which has achieved up to 50% annualized net returns since inception
  • Flexible working hours and unlimited paid vacation
  • Relocation support available for those joining onsite

Work Model

This role is hybrid. All engineers complete a two-week onboarding in Bratislava, Slovakia. Remote work is supported, but quarterly visits to Bratislava are required. Onsite collaboration is encouraged when feasible.

Our Culture

  • Transparency and direct feedback are core to how we operate
  • We value ownership, autonomy, and the ability to drive meaningful change
  • Team members are empowered to innovate, challenge assumptions, and grow
  • We prioritize exceptional talent over rigid qualifications
  • Ego is set aside—disagreement is welcomed, but once a decision is made, we commit fully
Required Skills
Rustsystem designperformance tuninglow-level optimizationalgorithmic thinkingdistributed systemsscalabilitydata analysisproblem solvingownershipteamworkcommunication Rustsystem designperformance tuninglow-level optimizationalgorithmic thinkingdistributed systemsscalabilitydata analysisproblem solvingownershipteamworkcommunication
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About company
Wincent
We are a team of over 150 people, primarily Engineers, Traders and Quants, focused on HFT with ~1% of global crypto trading volume. Being a bit weird, we are self-taught; our founders do not come from any of the big HFTs, chose to have no VCs on cap-table, and made Bratislava the central hub. We value integrity, direct communication, and radical transparency in compensation, bonuses, and trading strategies.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category backend
Posted 3 days ago