Job Description

Low Latency C++ Engineer - Trading Systems (Austin)

• Proprietary trading firm in Austin, operates in global capital markets.
• Technology-focused environment, fast-paced with excellent career growth potential.
• Focuses on automated market making and quantitative trading.
• Emphasizes high-speed, low-latency algorithmic strategies.
• Values ownership, collaboration, and a meritocratic structure.
• Test-driven development and high-impact work are core principles.
• Slogan: "Keep it simple stupid."
• Trades delta-1 products, futures, equities, and ETFs.
• Utilizes fully automated trading strategies.
• Looking for detail oriented engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop ultra-low latency C++ applications for trading systems.
• Focus on order entry, market data, and execution.
• Optimize for lowest latency and highest throughput.
• Implement and refine algorithms e.g. sums, string/stream, scoring, priority queues.
• Manage concurrency with sequence locks and memory barriers.
• Optimize STL container usage (vector, unordered_map, deque, list, map).
• Design custom, high-performance data structures.
• Enhance core order book and priority queue systems.
• Produce clean, tested, and documented C++ code.
• Collaborate with quants and trading professionals.

Required:

Core C++ & System Skills:

• Deep C++ expertise: memory, concurrency, low-level systems.
• Algorithm and data structure proficiency: heaps, queues, lock-free.
• Performance optimization: pipelining, cache, profiling, system tuning.
• Compiler awareness.
• Branch prediction and code layout.

Trading Systems & Infrastructure:

• Trading systems understanding: order books, market data.
• Template-based configuration and memory allocation.
• Concurrency: seqlocks, SPMC queues.
• Modern CMake practices.
• Testing, debugging, ABI compatibility.

Software Development Practices:

• Detail-oriented: clean, tested, documented code.
• Problem-solving: dissect challenges, create solutions.

Professional Attributes:

• Collaboration with quants.
• Results-driven: high-performance systems.
• Rapid learning: new technologies.
• Intellectual rigor: fundamental principles.

Bonus Points:

• Direct experience: designing order book or high-performance trading engine components.

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