Python Developer
Senior Backend Engineer
Senior backend engineer with 8 years building production distributed systems, the last 4+ in crypto-trading infrastructure.
Currently lead developer at a crypto market-making firm, owning the trading-algorithms and cross-exchange connectivity stack across 15+ centralized and decentralized venues.
Strong async Python and Rust background, with deep experience in real-time data, exchange connectivity, order management and event-driven architecture; security mindset from prior cybersecurity work and interest in extending into DeFi and on-chain infrastructure.
Experience: 8 years
Yearly salary: $120,000
Hourly rate: $60
Nationality: 🇧🇪 Belgium
Residency: 🇧🇪 Belgium
Experience
Lead developer
Kairon Labs 2024 - 2026
Lead a team of backend developers owning the firm’s trading-algorithms and cross-exchange connectivity stack, covering 15+ centralized and decentralized venues. Drive architecture, API and correctness reviews across order management, connectivity, data-platform and algorithm services. Partner closely with the in-house execution and data teams on integration, service contracts and exchange-semantics changes.
Backend developer
Kairon Labs 2022 - 2024
Designed and built the backend infrastructure powering the firm’s trading stack: order management, risk, connectivity and real-time data services. Built and maintained exchange integrations spanning 15+ centralized and decentralized venues (including AMM-based DEXes across multiple EVM chains) over websockets and REST.
Software Engineer
Sweepatic 2020 - 2022
Back-end engineer in cybersecurity (attack-surface platform); rebuilt it as micro-services on a distributed event-streaming system (Kafka), cutting new-customer onboarding from 7 days to 2 and fully automating it.
Skills
dataops
devops
quantitative-developer
rust
solidity
sql
python
english
dutch
french