Experienced Software Engineer - Risk and Operations

🚀Are you ready to make an impact and shape the future of our trading ecosystem? Apply now!

Who we are

WEBB Traders is a fast-growing, global proprietary trading company, driven by data and technology. We act as a market maker, using our own capital to trade on global stock and derivatives exchanges. By leveraging a large network of interdealer brokers and the latest advancements in electronic trading technology, we add liquidity to the financial markets specialized in cash equity and derivatives.

Since our very first trade in 2009, WEBB’s headquarters have been based in Amsterdam, nowadays supported by a strong presence in Paris. With our 70 employees of over 25 different nationalities, we are united in our great ambition to grow WEBB into a global leader in arbitrage and liquidity.

Join us to accelerate your career in the unique trading culture of openness, community and boundary-free entrepreneurship!

📍 This position can be based in our Amsterdam office

Your role

We’re looking for an experienced engineer to help build the risk and operations systems that power our proprietary trading stack. You'll design and implement mission-critical tools that safeguard our operations and provide deep insights into trading activity. This includes building an in-house Limits Tool to impose and monitor constraints on trading metrics, and developing operations tooling that enables us to trade 24/7.

You’ll work closely with traders, risk managers and operations to build intuitive internal UIs, and high-impact systems. Expect to dive deep into trading processes, contribute across the stack, and help shape the next generation of our trading infrastructure.

Tech Stack

We work with a modern stack optimized for fast development and operational excellence:

• Backend Services: FastAPI (Python)

• Frontend: Typescript, React

• Datastores & Messaging: PostgreSQL, Redis for pub/sub and caching

• CI/CD: TeamCity

• Standalone Scripting: A wide range of Python scripts are used outside of the backend for automation, data processing, and operational tasks

• Performance-Critical Code: Trading and analytics components are written in C++

What you bring to WEBB

• Industry experience & Technical mastery:

  • 3+ years of experience as a software or data engineer working on high-performance systems, large-scale data infrastructure, or real-time systems

  • Strong Python expertise and ability to reason through C++ code

  • Solid understanding of system design and performance optimization

  • Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases (Postgres, etc.)

  • Comfortable exploring and analyzing data to extract insights and metrics

  • Experience with web development or full-stack engineering is a plus

  • Background in statistics and/or financial theory is a strong advantage

• Impact mindset: You make decisions with purpose, always considering the broader impact on performance and efficiency

• Business-oriented: You seek to understand what the company needs to succeed and how the trading industry works, ensuring your work always aligns with the interests of the organization

• Endless curiosity: You have a drive to learn, understand, and continuously improve the systems around you

• Keep it simple: You believe in the power of simplicity, creating clean solutions that avoid unnecessary complexity

• Team player: You're eager to share knowledge and collaborate, helping the team achieve success together

• Language skills: You communicate effectively and clearly in English, both written and spoken

What we offer

• Challenge yourself. Be part of the dynamic work environment and grow along with us.

• Develop yourself. Join internal and external training sessions covering trading software, agile methodologies, and hardware and software management

• Treat yourself. Enjoy delicious meals in our office in Amsterdam or with your personal Swile card in Paris

• Stay fit. Sports facility access

• Keep the spirit up. Fun activities with your teammates on a regular basis

• Team up. A great office vibe in the heart of Amsterdam or Paris

• It’s on us. Benefit from travel reimbursement in Amsterdam

• And finally… A competitive reward package including a bonus scheme

Application process

1. Apply online - Submit your application (in English) through our WEBBsite. We’re excited to hear from you!

2. Get to know us - Have an online interview with our recruiter to align on expectations and see if we’re a match

3. Show your skills - Tackle our programming challenge and showcase your engineering superpowers

4. Dive deeper - Join a technical discussion with our engineers and exchange ideas on building high-performance systems

5. Meet us in person - Visit our office for the final round with our Head of IT, and stick around for a drink to get a real feel for our team

6. Welcome aboard! - Receive our offer and get ready to start your journey at WEBB!