DescriptionOur Software development team designs and builds low-latency systems that allow us to trade a diverse set of instruments across a wide range of financial marketplaces. This smaller, focused team comes with a high degree of responsibility and ownership. Our systems aim to be clean and understandable while achieving low latency and robust error tolerance. The libraries you work on will become the engine of our firm's strategies.
Responsibilities- Design and implement network connectivity, market data, and execution libraries for our automated trading software platform
- Work closely with our strategy teams to understand how they consume the software you write, so that you can anticipate and deliver future improvements
- Leverage libraries you've worked on to facilitate backtesting and post-trade analysis of our trading strategies
- Tune and refine existing components to improve performance, flexibility, and stability
- Tools: C++, Python, Bash, Linux, SQL
Requirements- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical field, plus five years of experience in software engineering, or a Master's degree in a quantitative or technical field, plus three years of experience in software engineering
- 2-3 years of previous experience with implementing low-latency connectivity at any major exchange in C++
- Strong knowledge of engineering software systems for low latency
- Excellent technical and non-technical communication skills
- Passion for the trading industry and interest in interfacing with multi-disciplinary trading teams
- Proficiency in C++, multithreading, IPC, automated testing and benchmarking, lock-free data structures, Linux, Solarflare network stack
- Experience with Python and/or Bash scripting, SQL, Gitlab CI/CD preferred
- This position requires physical presence and is on-site (no remote work)
BenefitsWe offer one of the most generous profit sharing programs in the industry because we believe our employees should be able to take part in our rapid growth and success. We are proud to offer more world-class benefits for our full-time employees and their families.
