Remote Position
Algorithmic Trading Systems Engineer — Execution & Backtesting (Implementation Only)
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Please Read Carefully I am hiring an algorithmic trading systems engineer to implement execution and backtesting infrastructure for a trading system. This role is implementation-only. You will not be designing strategies, defining rules, selecting indicators, or working on decision logic. All decision-making happens upstream and is treated as a black box by this role. ⸻ What You Will Be Doing You will be responsible for:
- Implementing execution logic that consumes external decision signals
- Building or extending a backtesting harness
- Handling order simulation / execution flow
- Managing event-driven loops
- Logging, metrics, and run diagnostics
- Ensuring correctness, reliability, and repeatability You will receive:
- predefined decision outputs
- execution requirements
- risk limits at the execution layer You will not see:
- the trading ontology
- the strategy logic
- the decision rules ⸻ What You Will NOT Be Doing This role does not include:
- Strategy design
- Indicator selection
- Parameter tuning
- Machine learning
- Alpha research
- Architecture redesign
- Discovery calls If you prefer shaping trading logic, this is not the right role. ⸻ Why This Is a Clean, Efficient Engagement
- Scope is fixed
- Responsibilities are narrow
- Expectations are explicit
- No ambiguity or strategy risk This is pure execution engineering, ideal for someone who enjoys building reliable systems without having to invent the logic. ⸻ Technical Expectations
- Python (production-grade)
- Experience with:
- event-driven systems
- backtesting frameworks
- execution pipelines
- asynchronous or concurrent code
- Clean, modular engineering style Trading experience is helpful but not required if execution experience is strong. ⸻ Engagement Structure
- Fixed-price
- Small scope
- Short duration
- May be split into milestones This posting reflects execution effort only, not full system ownership. ⸻ How to Apply Please include: 1. One example where you implemented execution or backtesting without knowing strategy logic 2. Your fixed-price proposal for this scope 3. Estimated delivery time Proposals assuming strategy or discovery will be declined. Apply tot his job