Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Engage in full life cycle development and deployment of C++ applications and libraries, spanning exchange gateways, trading strategy execution, risk management, and trade reporting.
• Create systems to continuously enhance performance, ensuring the integrity and reliability of existing applications.
• Employ modern profiling techniques for real-time investigation and resolution of production system issues.
• Construct and analyze experiments to enhance technical performance and uncover new trading opportunities, maintaining result validity and reproducibility.
• Collaborate closely with our quant team, sharing insights and leveraging data to optimize technical performance and identify new trading prospects.
• Effectively communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences, both technical and non-technical.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional C++ programming experience, particularly in low-latency environments.
• Trading industry or high performance system development is a must
• Proficiency in writing clean, high-performance, low-latency C/C++ code using contemporary software engineering practices, grounded in robust knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Expertise in STL and Boost libraries, multi-threaded programming, and optimization techniques.
• A collaborative mindset, actively engaging in code reviews and embracing opportunities to learn from fellow team members.
• Dedication to testing and measuring actionable changes within an evolving process.
• Strong communication skills adaptable to various technical backgrounds.
• Ownership mentality, driving ideas from inception to real-time application.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

*This is a full-time opportunity, hybrid environment to the downtown Chicago area.

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