QFEX, London, England, GB
Research
Lead research across exchange design, market microstructure, venue latency, and exchange data. Translate findings into concrete improvements to the matching engine, margin system, and fee model.
Operational Tooling
Build the internal tools that keep the exchange running: risk and margin dashboards, liquidation simulators, market surveillance, and reconciliation pipelines used by our ops team and institutional clients.
Technical direction
Evaluate tools, set coding standards, and guide architectural decisions as we scale.
Culture & hiring
Design fault-tolerant, low-latency, always-available services; write load tests and chaos suites; tune until p99 is boring.
Traditional financial markets are broken. We are fixing them.
QFEX is the first perpetual futures exchange to allow 24/7, high leverage trading on traditional financial assets.
Our vision: this kind of exchange will replace the entire $100bn TradFi exchange, clearing and brokerage industry
Our mission: make QFEX that exchange.
We were founded by Cambridge Maths duo Annanay Kapila and Joshua Wharton, who previously worked at Tower Research Capital and Citadel, respectively. The team also includes former staff from Jane Street, Optiver and Jump Trading.
QFEX has raised $9.5m from a group of investors including Y Combinator, an early investor in companies like Coinbase, Reddit and Monzo.
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Posted Jul 6, 2022
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OpenFXNew York, Dubai, London, Miami, Bangalore +1
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Jane StreetNew York, New York +1
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Posted Aug 1, 2022
Ansatz CapitalNew York
$150K–$250K / yr
Posted May 25, 2016
£150K–£250K / yr
Posted Feb 19, 2025
Source: the Y Combinator job board. We last checked this job 8 h ago. We first saw it 4 days ago. A job on a job board does not always mean that the team interviews people now.