Exchange Connectivity Engineer

Lead Exchange Connectivity Engineer, Digital Asset Trading FirmLondon (Remote) | Europe (remote) | Dubai (remote) Albert Bow is partnered with a global digital asset trading and technology firm on a senior connectivity hire. The company provides liquidity, OTC trading and market infrastructure to institutions, exchanges and token issuers, trading around the clock across crypto markets globally. The roleThis is end-to-end ownership of exchange connectivity. You will lead the design, build and operation of feed handlers across all connected venues, run go-lives from planning and staging through to cutover and post-launch support, and debug complex production issues across venue protocols and internal systems.You will set the technical standard for how the team approaches venue integration, mentor the engineers working on connectivity, and work on low latency trading infrastructure where your connectivity work meets the execution stack.They want an AI-forward engineer. Someone who builds repeatable AI coding workflows to raise the whole team's output, not someone waiting for the trend to pass. What you will needCrypto feed handler experience across multiple venues, in production, at an institutional firm. Not experimental, not internal-onlyStrong Rust experience across sync and async code, on top of a longer low latency C++ backgroundDeep knowledge of market data pipelines, the full order lifecycle and aggregating across multiple feedsStrong networking knowledge down the stack: HTTP, WS, TCP/IPProven experience leading venue migrations end to end, including parallel-run testing, rollback planning and switching off legacy systemsComfortable handling venue-side protocol changes and upgrades on tight timelinesHands-on experience with AI-first development, including building and testing the tooling around AI-assisted workflowsSome leadership experience. Tech lead or team lead level. This person sets direction Nice to haveAI code generation workflows delivered in productionExperience managing a connectivity squadTradFi and crypto protocols: FIX, ITCH, OUCH, WebSocket, proprietaryUltra-low-latency techniques at the network and memory level The personCurious, autonomous and results-driven. Comfortable juggling multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment. Strong analytical skills and professional English.Based in London, this role is remote. Candidates elsewhere in Europe or in Dubai can work fully remote.