Staff Software Engineer, C++

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you will be one of the technical leaders of our core technology team that pushes the boundaries of our state-of-the-art high-frequency trading platform. You will come up with innovative yet simple solutions to tackle complex problems. You will reimagine how we solve engineering problems and lead our team to make major improvements. This is a highly selective opportunity for talented individuals that are looking to join a leading team in a fast-growing quantitative trading industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of major software components, systems, and features

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our core libraries

• Redesign our existing software architecture to improve efficiency and scalability, as well as reduce time effort, and potential for errors in future development

• Leverage advanced algorithms and data structures to improve the speed and accuracy of our tick-by-tick backtesting research platform

• Interact directly with traders to communicate technology changes, manage incidents, and troubleshoot problems

• Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and internal sharing

• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• 8+ years of strong *hands-on* programming experience using C++14 (not C-style C++) in Linux environment

• Hands-on technical leadership experience leading software engineers and setting technical direction

• Strong understanding of computer systems, multithreading, networks, and performance optimization

• Experience architecting and developing large-scale software systems

• Strong written communication skills and intermediate English skills

• Passion and curiosity for quant trading and cryptocurrency markets

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in low-latency C++

• Experience in developing low latency systems