Proprietary Trading

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Role Title: Senior Software Engineer - Post-Trade Platform Summary: Senior Software Engineer role focusing on end-to-end ownership of key post-trade domains like reconciliation, booking, and reporting. Ideal for experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, thinking in systems, and building high-quality platforms that deliver real business impact. Key Responsibilities: - Own and develop critical post-trade domains such as reconciliation, booking, and reporting - Work closely with Trading, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Data teams to understand workflows and requirements - Design and build scalable backend services and data pipelines - Improve automation, data quality, resilience, and operational efficiency - Contribute to the target architecture and technical roadmap of the post-trade platform - Ensure observability, reliability, and data correctness across systems Required Skills: - 5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java or C++, with exposure to Python - Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and event-driven architectures - Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka - Hands-on experience building data-intensive systems, ETL pipelines, and analytical data solutions - Strong SQL and data modelling skills - Proven ability to own complex technical domains from design through production support - Strong stakeholder management and communication skills ( réseaux sociaux ) Nice to have: - Experience with post-trade workflows, including reconciliation, booking, or regulatory reporting - Working knowledge of the fintech industry or experience in proprietary trading or market making - Experience with Greenhouse (ATS) or similar recruiting tools - Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry Return ONLY the summary text. "Senior Software Engineer responsible

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City: Amsterdam
Country: Netherlands

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Flow Traders is building the next generation of its post-trade platform, covering trade capture, reconciliation, settlement, booking, reporting, and operational workflows across Equities, ETFs, Fixed Income, and Crypto. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of key post-trade domains, helping shape the platform architecture while building reliable, automated, and data-driven services.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, thinking in systems, and building high-quality platforms that deliver real business impact.

What you will do

Own and develop critical post-trade domains such as reconciliation, settlement, booking, and reporting
Work closely with Trading, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Data teams to understand workflows and requirements
Design and build scalable backend services and data pipelines
Improve automation, data quality, resilience, and operational efficiency
Contribute to the target architecture and technical roadmap of the post-trade platform
Ensure observability, reliability, and data correctness across systems

What you need to succeed

5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java or C++, with exposure to Python
Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and event-driven architectures
Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka
Hands-on experience building data-intensive systems, ETL pipelines, and analytical data solutions
Strong SQL and data modelling skills
Proven ability to own complex technical domains from design through production support
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Nice to have

Experience with post-trade workflows, including reconciliation, settlement, booking, or regulatory reporting
Background in financial services, proprietary trading, or market making
Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, Spark, Flink, or similar technologies
Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry

What we offer

At Flow Traders, we create the conditions for hardworking, highperforming people to do their best work. From a thorough onboarding and ongoing access to Flow Academy, to latest technology and a collaborative, nonhierarchical culture, we give you the tools, ownership, and support to move fast and drive outcomes. We keep a closeknit, smallcompany feel while offering competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share, and comprehensive benefits, so talent can grow here, and stay here. See our benefits below:

Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
Company boat
In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
Bi-weekly massages
Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event
Global rotations across our offices worldwide
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Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders

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