CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange for North American energy and commodities markets
Nodal Exchange operates a regulated futures exchange focused on power, environmental, and natural gas contracts across North American commodity markets. The tech stack—Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Hazelcast—reflects a financial-services backend tuned for high throughput and low-latency clearing. Active pain points center on modernizing a legacy data warehouse and scaling ETL pipelines, with concurrent hiring in engineering and product signaling a push to replace aging infrastructure while maintaining CFTC compliance and exchange uptime.
Nodal Exchange is a CFTC-designated contract market and clearing organization offering over 1,000 derivatives contracts across power, environmental, and natural gas markets. The company serves North American commodity traders with price discovery, credit, and liquidity risk management. As part of EEX Group, Nodal also provides clearing services to external exchanges including Coinbase Derivatives. Operations are centered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, with a 51–200 person staff split across engineering, product, finance, and technology teams.
Core platform runs on Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Hazelcast. Observability via Prometheus and Grafana. Infrastructure automation via Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible on Linux/Windows/VMware.
Modernizing data warehouse and reporting infrastructure, building and scaling ETL pipelines, and redesigning data flows to support business growth while maintaining exchange uptime.
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