Platform Engineer – Trading
London (3 days/week) \| £150k + significant equity
The mission
Join an early-stage, VC-backed startup building a trading platform for GPU. Users hedge and speculate on spot prices like any financial market, backed by top-tier investors (including Anthropic backers) and founders from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford.
The role
This is a greenfield platform engineering role with complete ownership over the core architecture. You'll design and build the systems powering real-time trading from the ground up, working directly with exceptional founders on one of the most ambitious infrastructure challenges at the AI/compute-financial markets intersection. Clear path to VP/CTO leadership.
What you’ll do
Architect the full platform stack (Python, TypeScript, Golang) handling trading engine, pricing models, hedging mechanisms and marketplace functionality.
Build scalable, low-latency systems for real-time order matching, risk management and market data distribution.
Design resilient infrastructure that can handle massive compute trading volumes with 24/7 reliability.
Integrate with compute providers, exchanges and financial protocols while maintaining strict security and compliance.
Collaborate directly with founders on technical roadmap, hiring strategy and product evolution, with full flexibility to introduce new technologies and paradigms.
What you bring
Deep platform/distributed systems experience in high-stakes environments (trading, fintech, infra or high-throughput services).
Strong proficiency across Python/TypeScript/Golang (or equivalent polyglot stacks) with proven ownership of production-grade systems.
Expertise in real-time systems, performance optimisation, fault tolerance and scalable architectures under uncertainty.
Experience with financial protocols, market data feeds, order matching or compute infrastructure is a strong plus.
Thrives in greenfield environments: making architectural trade-offs, shipping fast, iterating based on live feedback.
Why you might care
Early-stage opportunity to define a category-leading platform at the nexus of AI compute economics and financial markets.
£150k base + substantial equity upside with world-class founders and elite VC backing.
London-based, hands-on technical leadership role tackling novel problems with brilliant minds and rapid impact.