Open Positions at FalconX
Senior Trading System Support Engineer
Who are we? FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever- evolving cryptocurrency landscape. Responsibilities - Be part of a trading systems engineering team, dedicated to building out the core trading platforms. - Work closely with cross functional teams to improve the system reliability, scalability and security. - Engage in and improve the quality supporting the platform. - Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation. - Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform. - Work on improvements to bring in high efficiency, reduce latency, deploy systems faster. - Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. - Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents. - Implement and maintain rigorous security best practices across all infrastructure, with a focus on minimizing attack surface and ensuring data integrity. - Monitor system health and performance with a keen eye for identifying and resolving issues before they affect trading activity. - Manage user queries and service requests (often requiring in depth analysis of the technical and/or business logic of our systems). - Proactive approach to problem analysis and resolution of production incidents. - Manage Issue tracking and prioritisation of day to day production incidents. - Manage platform trading support initiatives (e.g. platform monitoring, reporting, release automation). Minimum Qualification - Bachelors with 5+ years of working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer - Strong knowledge of Linux system internals (kernels, memory management, file systems & network I/O optimization) as well as bash scripting. - Minimum 5+ years experience in a Front Office Trading Floor or related application support experience. - Need to be available to work in US (Night) Shift - Good product knowledge in financial instruments including experience in managing front to back trading lifecycle and familiar with order life cycle (Equities, FX, Crypto etc). - Experience with electronic trading platforms and OMS/EMS systems. - Knowledge of ITIL practices including Incident, Problem and Change management. - Experience with system monitoring platforms. - Proven expertise optimizing systems for lowest latenc... (View official application link for full details)
Senior Manager, Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting
Who are we? FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever- evolving cryptocurrency landscape. We are looking for more than a standard GAAP researcher; we need a Financial Architect who excels as both an analytical investigator and an operational leader in the role of Senior Manager, Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting. Reporting to the Head of Accounting, you will manage critical workstreams within our financial reporting function during a period of significant institutional scaling. In this Senior Manager leadership role, you will set operational objectives, oversee key accounting strategies, manage cross-functional projects, and lead teams (including offshore resources) to ensure strict compliance with U.S. GAAP, SEC regulations, and CFTC swap dealer requirements. You aren’t just maintaining books - you are building and managing a definitive "source of truth" within a complex, high-volume trading and regulated derivatives environment. This role is a 50/50 split between serving as an advanced technical expert and an operational manager, bridging the gap between cutting-edge trading desks and institutional-grade, regulated financial statements. Key Responsibilities - Operational Leadership & Strategy: Manage technical accounting and reporting workstreams; set clear operational objectives, delegate tasks effectively, and oversee departmental schedules and budgets to ensure flawless execution. - CFTC & NFA Compliance Reporting: Oversee and manage the end-to-end financial reporting lifecycle for our CFTC-registered Swap Dealer entity in compliance with CFTC Regulation. Lead the preparation and filing of required monthly/quarterly financial statements, position/counterparty exposures, margin reports, and capital calculations. - Financial Normalization: Direct the forensic review and reconciliation of complex historical data, leading internal and external resources to ensure a robust, "audit-ready" foundation. - On-Chain Intelligence: Manage the bridge between raw custodial data and GAAP reporting, ensuring high-volume transactional data is accurately tracked and traceable to its original source. - Advanced Technical Research: Act as a core internal authority on ASC 606 and 805, specifically regarding principal vs. agent nuances, M&A integrations, and DeFi yield protocols. - Capital Markets Readiness: Lead the project ma... (View official application link for full details)