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# Software Engineer (EMS) at Elwood Technologies

- **Company:** Elwood Technologies
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elwoodtechnologies/jobs/6173309004

## Job description

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: London/Hybrid.                 Type: Full-time

Level: Mid Level                                 Reports to: Rust Engineering Lead

## About Elwood

Elwood Technologies is a FCA regulated firm that provides end-to-end digital asset Execution Management, and Risk Management Software to institutional clients. We are now looking for a Software Engineer to work on our EMS platform within the Engineering Team .

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our team responsible for designing, building, and optimising a next-generation multi-region, multi-tenanted Execution Management System (EMS) platform.

The ideal candidate will have experience building concurrent, performance sensitive systems where correctness and high availability are maintained across multiple regions to meet the stringent demands of our global trading customers.

## Key Responsibilities

- Platform Development: Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput systems for a multi-region, multi-tenanted EMS platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
- Latency Optimisation: Analyse and optimise critical paths in the system to reduce latency and improve performance.
- Distributed Systems: Maintain distributed, fault-tolerant systems with high availability across multiple regions, ensuring data consistency and low-latency communication.
- Monitoring & Observability: Implement real-time monitoring, telemetry and alerting systems for proactive issue detection and resolution.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product, QA and infrastructure teams to align technical solutions with business requirements and ensure seamless deployments.
- Code reviews: Review teammates' code with rigour and help raise the team's collective standard.
- AI-Assisted Development: Use AI coding assistants heavily and critically - catching what they get wrong is part of the job.

## Qualifications / Knowledge

- 3+ years professional backend engineering, including concurrent, performance sensitive systems.
- Hands-on production Rust expertise. You should be able to walk through a non-trivial Rust system you built and defend its design. C++ or Go experience is a plus.
- Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures (e.g. Nats, Aeron)
- Knowledge of multi-tenancy patterns and best practices.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and tools for multi-region deployments.
- A working knowledge of databases and caches (PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, Zookeeper).
- Experience with observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

Soft Skills:

- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working in cross-functional teams.
- Attention to detail and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Understanding of crypto markets and products (Desirable).
- Experience in leveraging LLMs to accelerate delivery.
- Financial Services experience is desired along with a background in trading/EMS platforms.

What we offer:

💵  Competitive salary and compensation packages

🍎 Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family

✈️ Generous time off + bank holidays

🍼 Enhanced parental leave for all employees who have been with the company for one (1) year

🍔 Modern offices with snacks and a weekly Ubereats allowance

💪 Free onsite gym

🐕‍ Employee Assistance Programme

📚 Paid study leave and personal leave

Why Elwood?

- Join a series A FinTech company  and help shape the future of finance
- A startup with deep financial backing and a strong market presence
- Our platform is enabling institutional access to the most exciting growth opportunity in Finance
- Work with a modern technology stack and help solve high impact problems
- Strong client focused team with a diverse background
- We’re a Global company and have modern, centrally based offices in London, New York and Singapore.

## About Elwood Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Elwood Technologies provides an end-to-end institutional-grade digital asset trading platform that unifies execution, portfolio management, risk management, and collateral management for 24/7 markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding of $70 million as of 2026 per Growjo)
- **Headquarters**: Regents Park, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital asset trading infrastructure / Financial services
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors, financial institutions, neobanks, and corporations (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To build the foundational platform to unify traditional finance and digital assets." [elwood.io/about](https://www.elwood.io/about)

## Products & Services
- **Execution Management System (EMS)**: High-performance trading tools with algorithms, extensive venue connectivity across exchanges and liquidity providers, price optimisation, and advanced transaction cost analysis. [elwood.io](https://www.elwood.io/)
- **Portfolio Management System (PMS)**: Consolidated portfolio view of all positions and counterparties, real-time and historical P&L reporting with IBOR capabilities across CeFi, DeFi and TradFi venues. [elwood.io](https://www.elwood.io/)
- **Risk Management System (RMS)**: Comprehensive risk analytics powered by proprietary quantitative models, featuring institutional risk metrics and configurable scenario analysis for spot, volatility and time-based sensitivities on live positions. [elwood.io](https://www.elwood.io/)
- **Collateral Management**: Real-time streaming display of margin requirements across venues with a clear, consistent view of multiple margin modes via UI and API. [elwood.io](https://www.elwood.io/)
- **Post-Trade Reconciliation**: Automated trade, position and balance reconciliation across exchanges, custodians and internal systems within a single, standardised data model. [elwood.io](https://www.elwood.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $70 million; estimated annual revenue of $16 million [growjo.com](https://growjo.com/company/Elwood)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 74 employees operating across 7 countries; acquired Coremont LLP’s digital asset business in 2023; appointed former Coremont executive Michael Abib as CEO in April 2026 [elwood.io/about](https://www.elwood.io/about); LinkedIn follower count of 11,506 (growing 13.3% year-over-year) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/elwoodtechnologies)

## Competitive Advantages
- Full trade lifecycle coverage (pre-trade to post-trade) in a single, modular platform
- Institutional-grade security, resilience, and regulatory compliance by design
- Proprietary quantitative risk models built in-house
- Deep combined expertise in traditional finance and digital assets
- API-first architecture enabling seamless integration into existing institutional stacks

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the "institutional operating system for 24/7 markets"
- Deepen convergence between traditional finance (TradFi) and digital assets
- Expand global footprint with hubs in key financial centers (London, New York, Singapore, UAE)
- Scale the platform and client base while maintaining modular flexibility

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-trust, ownership-driven environment with small, agile teams and significant autonomy [elwood.io/careers](https://www.elwood.io/careers)
- **Work style**: Hybrid/remote arrangements depending on role and team; global company with in-person collaboration hubs [elwood.io/careers](https://www.elwood.io/careers)
- **Impact**: Work on mission-critical infrastructure that bridges two worlds of finance; not a maintenance job [elwood.io/careers](https://www.elwood.io/careers)
- **Team**: Seasoned group of financial technologists and digital asset natives; exceptional average talent level [elwood.io/careers](https://www.elwood.io/careers)
- **Growth**: Unparalleled opportunities to take on new responsibilities as the company scales [elwood.io/careers](https://www.elwood.io/careers)

## Sources
1. [elwood.io](https://www.elwood.io/) – Platform overview and product details
2. [elwood.io/about](https://www.elwood.io/about) – Mission, team, and CEO appointment
3. [elwood.io/careers](https://www.elwood.io/careers) – Culture, values, and benefits
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/elwoodtechnologies](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elwoodtechnologies) – Current open roles
5. [growjo.com](https://growjo.com/company/Elwood) – Company data (revenue, funding, headcount)
6. [linkedin.com/company/elwoodtechnologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/elwoodtechnologies) – LinkedIn profile and follower metrics

## Other roles at Elwood Technologies

- [Technical Client Success Manager - Singapore](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-client-success-manager-singapore-elwood-technologies-singapore-fsds2j518efc) — Singapore