2 months ago
Base Salary
$275k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deliver, and integrate critical components for Stat-Arb, low-latency, and high-touch trading platforms.
- Spend approximately 80% of the time on hands-on software engineering and 20% mentoring and coordinating staff.
- Collaborate with the Systematic COO and Business Analysts on architecture and implementation.
- Provide technical thought leadership within the team and across the front office.
- Provide Level 3 support for global operations.
- Lead and mentor small, highly technical development teams.
Requirements
- At least ten years of C++ development experience in a Linux-based environment.
- Expertise designing C++ systems for microsecond latency, including cache-conscious data structures, lock-free concurrency, and the C++ memory model.
- Experience with systems-level latency engineering, including kernel bypass, core isolation, NUMA-aware thread and memory placement, and keeping syscalls off the critical path.
- Experience building electronic trading systems, market data systems, or crossing engines, including exchange-native protocols and feed handlers.
- Experience delivering software in co-located execution environments.
- Exceptional architecture and software design skills.
- Proficiency with DevOps methodologies, CI/CD, and build automation.
- Experience with Agile Development frameworks and Site Reliability Engineering methodology.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communication with non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving, adaptability, leadership, and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Base pay is expected to be $275,000–$300,000, with potential performance-based compensation and a competitive benefits package.
- The role is based in New York City.
- The company provides learning and educational offerings, opportunities to make an impact, internal networks, external partnerships, and service initiatives supporting inclusion and community.
About Schonfeld
Schonfeld is a privately held, multi-manager hedge fund that allocates capital to internal and external portfolio managers across quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading, and discretionary macro/fixed-income strategies. The firm manages money for institutional and other sophisticated investors and supports teams with proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York, it operates globally with an investing footprint spanning five continents.