Staff Engineer, Trading Automation and Backend Platforms

Flow Traders is looking for a Staff Engineer to join us in our Amsterdam office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. We are looking for a senior individual contributor to lead the architectural and technical direction for our Trading Automation and Backend Engineering teams. Operating across the full trade lifecycle (pre-trade, execution, and post-trade), you will bridge the gap between engineering, trading, and operations. As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle ambiguous, large-scale problems, set global engineering standards, and scale your impact by mentoring tech leads and engineers across multiple teams. What you will do: Strategic Architecture & Vision Define and own the long-term technical architecture for our trading automation, risk, and post-trade platforms. Translate complex, ambiguous business problems into clear, executable technical roadmaps. Architect scalable, event-driven systems optimized for high throughput, data integrity, and reliability. Engineering Leadership & Mentorship Elevate engineering standards across the organization, focusing on system design, observability, reliability, and scalability. Act as an IC multiplier: mentor senior engineers, guide tech leads, and drive technical alignment across fragmented systems. Lead efforts to responsibly decommission legacy systems in favor of modern, scalable services. Business & Operational Impact Partner closely with trading, quant, risk, and operations teams to align technical choices with business value. Drive automation in post-trade and middle-office workflows (allocations, settlements, reconciliations) to drastically reduce operational risk. What you need to succeed 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal,