C++ Developer (Options Market Making)

Location: Bala Cynwyd (Philadelphia Area), Pennsylvania, United States

Company

hirify.global is a quantitative trading firm focused on derivatives market making and market taking across global financial markets.

What you will do

• Design and develop performance-sensitive C++ applications connecting trading platforms with exchanges and liquidity venues.
• Build next-generation gateways and exchange connectivity systems for rapid pricing, quoting, and execution.
• Engineer resilient real-time systems that handle high volumes of market data and order flow.
• Analyze and optimize latency, throughput, determinism, performance, and reliability across the software stack.
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, infrastructure engineers, and software developers to improve execution quality.
• Contribute to the architecture of next-generation options trading systems.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience programming in modern C++ and writing performance-critical code.
• Experience working collaboratively with traders, researchers, and developers in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of TCP/UDP networking or exchange-facing protocols.
• Experience in electronic trading or financial technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Intellectually driven and highly collaborative environment.
• Direct collaboration between researchers, engineers, traders, and specialized trading desks.
• Opportunities to work with machine learning, quantitative research, and advanced hardware and software technologies.
• Flexible start date.