Role: SVP, Senior C++ Market Data Engineer - Equities Electronic TradingEmployment Type: Full-Time Location: Jersey City, NJ or NYC, NY Work Model: Hybrid, 3 days onsite Duration: Permanent Salary Range: $210K to $235K/PA (Base salary)Job Description: We are seeking an exceptional and highly seasoned C++ engineer to assume the role of Senior Vice President, leading our Equities Market Data engineering team.
This is a senior leadership position responsible for the architectural vision, strategic direction, and flawless execution of our global, ultra-low-latency market data platform.
The primary objective of this role is to engineer and safeguard the foundational data layer that powers our entire electronic trading franchise, ensuring our algorithmic and quantitative strategies have a decisive speed and data quality advantage in the market.
Qualifications: - 10+ years of hands-on C++ development experience, with a strong track record of designing, developing, and maintaining mission-critical, ultra-low-latency systems within high-frequency trading (HFT) environments.
- Expert proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/C++20), including advanced knowledge of templates, multithreading, concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques.
- Strong expertise in low-level systems programming, network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, multicast), and high-performance networking technologies, including kernel-bypass frameworks.
- Proven experience building, enhancing, and optimizing market data feed handlers for major equities exchanges, with deep familiarity with exchange-specific market data protocols.
- Comprehensive understanding of equities market structure, market data normalization, and the challenges associated with processing large-scale, latency-sensitive financial data.
- Demonstrated success in technical leadership and solution architecture, including mentoring engineers, driving technical direction, and delivering scalable, high-performance systems.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve complex production issues in fast-paced, time-critical environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline required; Master's degree preferred.
- Experience with Linux-based trading infrastructure and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with exchange connectivity, order routing systems, and real-time market data distribution platforms.
- Strong understanding of systems performance profiling, benchmarking, and latency measurement methodologies
