Senior software engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Global Prop Shop - Chicago/New York - Up to $850k TC. An established prop shop is expanding its global options coverage. This follows a multi-year investment in their HFT Trading systems which are now capable of single digit nano tick-to-trade latency. The team comes from all of the top firms, including Jane Street, Optiver, IMC and CitSec. They have 3 teams that they are looking to hire Engineers into from inside and outside of finance, covering market connectivity, ultra-low latency execution strategy development and more. Role: Development of end-to-end latency-sensitive systems, ensuring maximum reliability/uptime. Working collaboratively with end users (Quants, Traders, Strategy Developers) to integrate algos into the trading system, as well as build custom tools, solutions and automation. Code Optimisation, using advanced C++ features (concepts, coroutines, constexpr) to write efficient clean code as well as performance profiling and optimising memory usage. Requirements: Excellent C++ 20/23 skills with good knowledge of templates, and compile-time metaprogramming. Good knowledge of Cache and Memory optimisation. Ideally some understanding of Networking and Market Data Feeds. Previous experience with common C++ libraries (Boost, ZeroMQ etc.). Excellent communication skills. If you would want to be part of a small, high impact team, building out a new options trading system, this would be a great fit. For more information please get in touch at

James@durlstonpartners.com

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