About the role
Overview and Job Description
OneChronos is seeking a software engineer to design and optimize high-performance trading systems that power our periodic auction matching infrastructure. This is a systems programming role focused on low-latency, high-throughput distributed computing, with exposure to infrastructure and DevOps. The ideal candidate has experience building real-time, performance-sensitive systems and thrives in a collaborative, research-driven environment at the intersection of mechanism design and financial markets.
As a software engineer at OneChronos, your work will span order and data workflow, periodic auction execution, system reliability, and performance optimization, ensuring the platform is efficient, fault-tolerant, and capable of handling complex trade matching at scale.
About (www.OneChronos.com)
OneChronos is a technology company of diverse thinkers innovating at the intersection of capital markets, mechanism design, and operations research, working to grow the global GDP by designing and operating matching markets leveraging advances in auction theory and artificial intelligence. Our software and systems are developed in house and match billions of dollars per day of security transactions.
Skills and Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Passion for the craft of writing high-quality code meant to be read and easily understood by a growing team
- Proficiency in a systems-level programming language (e.g., Rust, C++, Java), with Rust being a plus
- A polyglot mindset
- Highly detail-oriented, with a focus on ensuring correctness, consistency, and reliability
