Principal Software Engineer

You will architect and develop distributed, event-driven trading systems for equities and options. You will optimize platform performance, lead and mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and support production and non-production environments, including off-hours support when needed.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop distributed event-driven electronic trading systems
• Design and implement algorithmic trading systems for equities and options
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver resilient systems
• Lead platform performance tuning and optimization
• Lead and mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices
• Support production and non-production environments, including off-hours or weekend support as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent
• 10+ years of hands-on software design and development experience in electronic trading
• Experience building algorithmic trading or smart order routing systems for equities and options
• Experience with equities and options market data
• Expertise in C, C++, Python, and Linux
• Experience with low-latency messaging systems such as 29West, Ultra Messaging, or Kafka
• Experience with KDB+ or other time-series databases
• Experience building scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven applications
• Knowledge of FIX protocol and FIX engines
• Experience with GitHub Copilot, GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, uDeploy, and AWS

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage
• Emotional well-being support
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Charitable giving employee match program
• Student loan repayment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Learning resources