Elite Prop Trading Firm – Midtown, NYC
Description:
Our client is looking for a uniquely talented software engineer to join their world-class team. This team works with all other development teams within the company with the goal of moving the company to one platform. The platform consists of services they’ve on-boarded and built tooling around. The team consists of strong software engineers who are able to dig deep into issues, submit patches to the OSS products, and embed into other development teams throughout the company to help get them onto the platform. They power everything at the company from real-time trading systems to big-data batch processing pipelines.
Responsibilities:
- Develop complex new software systems, extend and integrate the latest open-source and third-party services, containerization and orchestration technologies, both on-premises and in the cloud
- Shape how ‘web-scale’ technologies can be applied in a financial trading organization with varied use-cases and stringent performance and reliability requirements
- Work embedded with application teams to integrate infrastructure into their real use-cases, work hand-in-hand with the Systems Infrastructure team to build a great platform
- 4+ years of experience establishing and evangelizing engineering best practices across a variety of engineering teams
- Significant experience programming in one or more of C++, Python, Go, or Java
- Ability to collaborate with a larger team on design innovations
- Keen debugging, problem-solving, and optimization skills
- Pragmatic and mature approach to technology
- Experience designing fully automated, scalable, supportable, and reliable trading systems is highly desirable
- Bachelors or Masters degree in CS from a rigorous academic program
Base Salary Range: $150,000 – $175,000