Trading Software engineer
As a Trading software developer, you will work in close collaboration with the research, systems, and operations teams to design, engineer, implement, and maintain the Firm's software written in Java/C++.
You will play a key role in designing and constructing the Firm's software infrastructure to support new and existing lines of business. You will expand the Firm's proprietary research platform to improve performance and support new exchanges, products and functionality.
Qualifications:
- Preferred degree in any computing related area (e.g., computer science, computer engineering, etc.)
- Committed to designing and implementing fully automated, scalable, and maintainable solutions with extensive testing
- Comfortable operating at various levels of abstraction, from individual machines to large scale distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of the details of computing all throughout the technical stack
- Superior ability to write, refactor, and debug programs in Java
- Good knowledge of networking and storage systems
- Experience or knowledge of C++ is a plus
- Knowledge of Linux is a plus
- Experience in the trading industry is a plus
Day to Day:
- Maintain and extend core research infrastructure
- Design, implement, and maintain distributed storage systems with various performance and reliability requirements
- Address performance limitations within our own software, open-source libraries and applications, Linux, etc.
- Investigate new technologies to improve stability, scalability, and performance of a distributed computing farm
- Develop and improve monitoring and proactive detection capabilities
- Perform basic data analysis to support decision making and better plan for future growth
- Improve networking communication between different components of the system to achieve optimal latency and throughput
- Conduct code reviews of other developers, researchers and operations team members
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