Software Engineer, Trading Systems (C++)

Location: New York, United States; hybrid working opportunities available

Salary: $120,000–$285,000 annual base salary, plus eligible discretionary bonus

Company

Quantitative trading firm operating a high-performance electronic trading platform and supporting independent systematic trading teams through shared research, market access, data, compute, and risk infrastructure.

What you will do

• Architect and evolve trading platforms supporting quantitative research, simulation, and production trading.
• Design and develop high-performance systems for collecting market data, processing signals, and routing orders to global exchanges.
• Build research tooling, backtesting frameworks, simulation systems, and data-access platforms for strategy development.
• Translate quantitative models into robust production systems and lead development across research tooling, deployment, and monitoring.
• Optimize systems through low-latency software design, network programming, performance analysis, and systems-level engineering.
• Build risk management, monitoring, performance attribution, and trading analytics systems while diagnosing production issues.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and software design.
• Excellent programming skills in C++; experience with Python is strongly preferred.
• Experience building high-performance, data-intensive, or low-latency software.
• Interest in financial markets, systematic trading, and quantitative research workflows.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with market data systems, exchange connectivity, or electronic trading platforms.
• Experience building research platforms, backtesting systems, simulation frameworks, or quantitative analytics tools.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis, machine learning, or quantitative modeling.
• Experience with Linux, distributed systems, Python, or Rust.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working opportunities in a collaborative and welcoming workplace.
• Generous paid time off policies and regional savings and financial wellness programs.
• Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily, plus in-office wellness experiences and wellness expense reimbursement.
• Company-sponsored sports teams, fitness events, volunteer opportunities, and charitable giving.
• Social events, workshops, and continuous learning opportunities.