Electronic Market Making Software Engineer (C++)

Location: New York, NY, United States

Salary: USD 150,000–300,000 base salary per year, plus potential discretionary bonus.

Company

Global Banking & Markets division developing electronic market-making and quantitative engineering systems.

What you will do

• Architect and build foundational trading infrastructure for a multi-phase ETF initiative.
• Develop high-performance trading systems and data infrastructure from scratch using bespoke solutions.
• Design low-level systems covering memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Optimize high-volume, low-latency trading components and maintain research infrastructure for very large data inputs.
• Improve operational robustness and evolve the architecture for future phases, including international ETF expansion.
• Contribute to strategy decisions alongside software development in a collaborative engineering environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a STEM discipline, preferably Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• 5–10 years of experience developing software architecture in C/C++.
• Expert-level C++ proficiency is mandatory.
• Proven experience architecting and building high-performance trading systems and data infrastructure from scratch.
• Strong low-level system design skills, including memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Ability to maintain operational quality while delivering quickly in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in telecom, physics research, or mathematics research environments.
• Experience building high-performance research infrastructure for very large datasets.
• Familiarity with statistics and data-science methodologies.
• Familiarity with Python and data-science packages such as NumPy and scikit-learn.

Culture & Benefits

• Small team with strong individual ownership and accountability.
• Open collaboration and transparent discussion of ideas.
• Direct involvement in both software and strategy development.
• Competitive benefits and wellness offerings for eligible US employees.
• Potential discretionary bonus for active employees at fiscal year-end.