Job description
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Austin, Texas
Job Description: Our Senior Software Engineers lead large technical projects, help set the direction for our trading infrastructure, and serve as role models within the organization.
Our software engineering teams leverage technology to solve a variety of difficult problems. Our trading strategies must respond to market events in microseconds or less, and we automatically price large, diverse sets of financial instruments with extremely low error tolerance. We continually refine, store, and analyze terabytes of data produced by market activity and our trading systems. Our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive real-time visualizations of market activity and system performance while providing intuitive control of a highly complex system. Our core systems must provide a stable, performant, and trusted foundation on which our systems are built.
Technology Overview:
We pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach. We engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take pride in the quality of our solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Establish vision and technical direction for major initiatives
- Design, develop, support, and maintain large portions of our trading infrastructure
- Contribute to the technology stack and our pricing, research, and trading models from ideation through to implementation
- Ensure new and existing programs adhere to our coding, architectural, and operational standards
- Develop a deep understanding of trading and exchanges
- Collaborate deeply with traders, engineers, and researchers
Qualifications:
- Experience leading large-scale projects
- Strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals
- Experience with C, C++, Python, and Linux is preferred
- Innovative, big-picture thinking grounded in real-world pragmatism
- Desire to continuously improve in a rapidly evolving environment
- Readiness to set technical direction, promote engineering principles, and do the right thing
Benefits:
- Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
- Performance-based bonus structure that is unmatched in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams, and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
- Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.
- Located in a vibrant city with a strong focus on innovation and a high quality of life.