Senior C++ Software Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States; hybrid workplace with occasional on-site attendance before business hours

Company

hirify.global is a proprietary trading firm developing high-performance technology for market-making across commodities, interest rates, ETFs, and equity index options.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable trading applications for multiple asset classes.
• Build high-performance market data systems that ingest and process raw feeds.
• Implement exchange protocols, including CME and Cboe, with a focus on concurrency, throughput, and ultra-low latency.
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, analysts, and engineers to deliver highly available systems.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, test, and deploy critical trading applications while reducing operational risk.
• Use peer code review and engineering best practices to improve development quality and efficiency.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with C++ programming and Python scripting.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience with high-performance, multithreaded, and network programming.
• Ability to own projects end to end, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline.
• Strong communication skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, and willingness to coach junior engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering automated trading systems.
• Knowledge of financial market concepts, including options trading and engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Team-based development with collaboration across trading, quantitative research, analytics, and engineering.
• Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours is expected.
• No travel is required.
• Eligible positions may receive discretionary bonuses.
• Employee benefits are available.

Hiring process

• Hiring includes evaluation of technical expertise, communication, ownership, and collaboration abilities.