C++ Software Engineer (DV Commodities - New York)

Location: New York, United States

Base salary: $180,000–$250,000 USD per year, plus discretionary bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global is a proprietary trading firm building electronic trading and market-making systems for global financial and commodities markets.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of the core C++ trading platform across execution, order management, market data, pricing, and risk.
• Design and maintain direct exchange connectivity, including order-entry gateways and feed handlers for CME, ICE, and other futures and commodities venues.
• Optimize microsecond- and nanosecond-level performance using lock-free data structures, cache-aware design, kernel-bypass networking, CPU pinning, and NUMA tuning.
• Work with trading desks, quants, and developers on pricing, execution algorithms, feature development, and complex production issues.
• Build high-performance components for simulation and live trading.
• Own systems end to end, including testing, deployment, and production support in a live trading environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional C++ development experience and deep knowledge of modern C++17/20, templates, move semantics, memory models, and concurrency.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, multithreaded systems for quantitative trading, ideally at a proprietary trading firm, market maker, hedge fund, or exchange.
• Knowledge of exchange operations, order types, matching-engine behavior, market microstructure, and native protocols such as iLink/MDP, ICE protocols, FIX, or SBE.
• Direct experience with futures or commodities markets; energy markets and swaps are advantageous.
• Systems-level fluency with Linux/Unix, Git, TCP/UDP, multicast networking, kernel-bypass stacks such as Onload, VMA, or DPDK, and performance profiling.
• Experience with distributed systems, large datasets, SQL, NoSQL, or tick databases, plus Python, NumPy, or pandas for research and tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on senior role on a small team with broad ownership across the trading stack.
• Direct collaboration with trading desks, quants, and developers.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• HSA, FSA, dependent care, life, AD&D, and voluntary LTD insurance options.
• Flexible vacation policy and retirement plan with employer match.