Lead Software Developer (Options Market Making)

Location: New York, Montreal, or London

Company

hirify.global is the hiring organization for a software development role focused on electronic options market making.

What you will do

• Design and develop a high-performance, event-driven options quoting engine for large numbers of simultaneous two-sided quotes.
• Build quote lifecycle management for creation, replacement, cancellation, refresh, and re-entry across symbols, strikes, expirations, and exchanges.
• Implement quote prioritization, throttling, rate budgets, burst controls, quote aging, backpressure handling, and graceful degradation during market-data or volatility events.
• Develop high-performance C++ components using lock-free and low-contention data structures, cache-aware layouts, NUMA awareness, and high-performance inter-process communication.
• Profile and optimize the complete quote-to-exchange path, including serialization, batching, network-stack behavior, pacing, queue depth, and latency distribution.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in options electronic market making, with strong end-to-end quote lifecycle experience.
• Strong knowledge of CPU architecture, memory hierarchy, caching, concurrency, networking, and Linux performance.
• Demonstrated experience building low-latency, high-throughput, multithreaded systems.
• Strong hands-on C++ development experience for performance-critical systems.
• Strong understanding of U.S. options market microstructure, exchange matching engines, gateway behavior, session management, acknowledgments, rejects, and recovery.
• Experience with one or more U.S. equity options exchanges is highly preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is centered on performance-critical systems and real-time electronic market infrastructure.
• The role involves optimizing exchange connectivity, throughput, latency, and system resilience.