Principal responsibilities

·     Proactively provide creative input in order to engineer new and enhance existing trading infrastructure and strategies.

·     Identify potential areas for optimization and performance enhancements including suggestions for the ongoing maintenance and improvement of overall code quality.

·     Own all aspects of trading strategy code including trading algorithms, performance, and exchange connectivity.

·     Provide realistic estimates for project and software development timelines ensuring accountability.

·     Utilize exhaustive testing and debugging skills as part of the development process.

·     Stay current on industry development and trends to maintain ongoing business awareness and a competitive edge.

·     Work closely with traders and quantitative analysts to understand the business needs of the technology to ensure the system is ideally built for the problem at hand.

·     Work closely with the support staff to ensure the successful system operation and take pride in being the first point of contact for technicaltroubleshooting.

 

Required Experience

·     Excellent academic record in a subject with a strong computational emphasis (e.g. computer science, engineering, physics, etc.); BS/BArequired; PhD/MSc is well respected.

·     Strong coding experience in C ++ and SQL required

·     Enjoys writing efficient and clear code.  At home thinking about large scale design as well as making the implementation specifics great.  Gets a sense of achievement out of seeing their code running in the real world.  Likes to get involved in performance and machine specifics when optimizing code speed.

·     Desire to stand out as one of the technical leaders in a global development organization

·     Experience with Linux, databases and distributed systems required.

·     Ability to debug applications using GDB is required.

·     Ability to also code in C, Python, Java, MAT L AB and/or other languages a plus.

·     Ability to communicate ideas clearly and work well in a cross-disciplinary team.

 

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