C++ Developer

The c++ developers maintain our trading/research capabilities in global markets and innovate how we do them. The developer team has a very direct impact on profits, very little bureaucracy, and no place to hide. You'll be expected to take on multiple roles - including gathering requirements, development, testing, performance monitoring, and build and release management. We release multiple times a day and there’s very little margin for error. We strongly depend on our suite of automated tests for the confidence to make dramatic changes reliably. We see maintaining a flexible, lightweight, modern codebase as a competitive advantage.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Optimizing the performance of various components of the trading system;
• Maintaining, enhancing backtest simulator;
• Exploring big-data infrastructure for research;
• Execution algorithms research;
• High-frequency strategy research;

Qualification

• Expert programming skills in some well-known language, along with knowledge of computer system, e.g. networking, threading, etc.;
• Proactive about taking responsibility
• Testing geek and software minimalist
• Ability to write sizable applications and manage complexity;
• Effective communicator and decision-maker;
• Linux experience;

The following skills are bonus:

• Familiar with Linux kernel;
• Experience with hardware development, e.g. NIC, video card etc.;
• System administration experience;