About the Company:
A Chicago-based HFT firm is expanding its team of C++ engineers at all levels. As a collaborative company with an extremely flat structure, they're smaller than the big players, so you’ll have the unique opportunity for real impact and the chance to wear multiple hats.
About the Role:
Are you a deep thinker? Interested in problem-solving? Ever-curious and constantly learning? Revolutionize the industry. Become a Software Engineer at one of the world's leading HFT businesses.
Responsibilities:
- Implement new exchange connectivity within existing infrastructure
- Build monitoring systems for trading strategies (e.g., intraday drawdown, lost exchange connectivity, lost connectivity within firm’s network, etc.)
- Extend the firm’s core research infrastructure. Design, implement and maintain distributed storage systems.
- Address performance limitations within Linux.
- Investigate new technologies to improve the stability, scalability and performance of the research platform.
- Conduct performance optimization of the live trading strategy – implementing new strategies and optimizing existing ones.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years' experience in a similar role
- Strong educational background
- Strong C++ experience
- Any level of software engineering experience
- Intellectually driven
- Passionate about research, technology and trading outcomes
- Interested in a collaborative environment
Pay range and compensation package:
Extremely Competitive Pay - $450k - $700k total comp
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