Platform Engineer

  • VERTECH GROUP (UK) LTD
  • 01/04/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Trading Platform Engineer (Exchange Connectivity)

Location: Remote (with occasional visits to the London office if required)

Salary: Circa 100K 130K + Benefits

We re working with a trading-focused business looking to hire a Platform Engineer with experience connecting into exchanges, particularly within crypto environments

This isn t a standard DevOps role; the key requirement is experience integrating with trading venues and understanding how those systems behave in production

What you ll be doing:

  • Building and maintaining platform infrastructure across AWS
  • Supporting and improving connectivity into crypto and/or traditional exchanges
  • Working with APIs, WebSockets and potentially FIX protocols
  • Ensuring high availability and reliability across trading systems
  • Collaborating with engineering and trading teams on performance and scalability
  • Troubleshooting connectivity, latency and production issues

Essential:

  • Strong platform / infrastructure engineering background
  • Experience integrating with exchanges (crypto or traditional)
  • Understanding of low latency / high availability environments
  • Comfortable working in production-critical systems
  • Ability to operate across both infrastructure and application-level connectivity

Nice to have:

  • Experience in trading, fintech or crypto environments
  • Exposure to low latency systems
  • Knowledge of networking and system performance tuning

Tremendous opportunity to work on systems where reliability and real-time performance actually matter, rather than just internal tooling! You ll be part of an engineering-led team with real ownership, building infrastructure that connects directly into exchanges

Apply now for FULL details!