1 hour ago
Atlanta, GA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$144k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead and advise the design, implementation, delivery, and modernization of high-performance trading software.
- Integrate market data feeds from financial providers and exchanges to process real-time data and support trading strategies and regulatory requirements.
- Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, mentoring, code reviews, and knowledge sharing for engineering teams.
- Improve trading applications' performance, scalability, reliability, and low-latency communications.
- Lead comprehensive unit and integration testing, debugging, quality assurance, and validation for high transaction volumes.
- Collaborate with traders, analysts, and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals.
- Maintain technical documentation, operation manuals, onboarding materials, and compliance-related records.
- Monitor live trading systems, resolve complex operational issues, support maintenance, and lead disaster recovery planning.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of relevant work experience; the role typically reflects 10 or more years of software development experience.
- Deep expertise in C++ and extensive experience with the FIX protocol.
- Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency trading systems.
- Strong understanding of multithreading, concurrency, performance optimization, network programming, and messaging protocols.
- Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.
- In-depth knowledge of electronic trading systems and financial markets, including order management, market data, and execution systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor cross-functional engineering teams and conduct code reviews.
- Experience modernizing legacy trading systems and adopting new technologies and software development best practices.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment with strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Expected base salary of $144,000-$210,000.
- Eligible for a discretionary incentive award based on company and individual performance.
- Comprehensive benefits program, including medical and other benefits depending on the position and hours worked.
- Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 hours worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
