Director, Staff Engineer (Low Latency)

• Help architect, implement, and maintain Rothera's core exchange and clearing infrastructure, ensuring the system is performant, scalable, and ultra-reliable.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on contributions to system design patterns, frameworks, protocols, and data architectures, ensuring they meet the requirements for performance, reliability, correctness, and maintainability.
• Utilize Aeron and Hydra frameworks to build ultra-low-latency and high-throughput messaging architectures that power the core of our infrastructure.
• Handle massive data volumes efficiently, designing storage and retrieval patterns for market data, trade history, positions, and audit trails.
• Collaborate with the Product team and other stakeholders to design technical solutions for new, innovative financial products.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents requiring deep technical troubleshooting.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent building high-performance, low-latency distributed systems.
• Expert-level Java proficiency, including deep understanding of concurrency primitives, memory management, JVM internals, and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with Hydra, Aeron or other low latency messaging frameworks.
• Proven experience building systems at scale that handle high message throughput (100k+ msgs/sec), low latency (sub-millisecond p99), and high availability (99.99%+ uptime).
• Experience with financial markets technology and understanding of order books, matching algorithms, and derivatives products.

This position has a base salary of $175,000-$200,000 per year.

Rothera is dedicated to advancing the careers and personal wellbeing of our team members. We are continuously exploring ways to support our employees holistically, including a 401(k) plan with employer match, health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents, paid time off, and much more.

Why you should join the mission

If you want a critical role in a path-breaking company, you belong here.

Rothera values initiative from individuals of all backgrounds. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

This is a full-time, in-person hybrid position with an expectation to be on-site Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. This position is not available for visa sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent, indefinite basis.