C++ Software Engineer (DV Commodities - New York)
DV Trading3 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of the core C++ trading platform across execution, order management, market data, pricing, and risk.
- Design and maintain direct exchange connectivity, including order-entry gateways and feed handlers for CME, ICE, and other futures and commodities venues.
- Optimize microsecond- and nanosecond-level performance through lock-free data structures, cache-aware design, kernel-bypass networking, CPU pinning, NUMA tuning, and latency measurement.
- Partner with trading desks, quants, and developers on pricing, execution algorithms, feature requests, and complex production issues.
- Build high-performance components for simulation and live trading.
- Own systems through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support in a live trading environment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional C++ development experience with deep knowledge of modern C++17/20, templates, move semantics, memory models, and concurrency.
- Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, multithreaded systems for quantitative trading, ideally at a proprietary trading firm, market maker, hedge fund, or exchange.
- Strong understanding of exchange operations, order types, matching-engine behavior, market microstructure, and native exchange protocols such as iLink/MDP, native ICE, and FIX/SBE.
- Direct experience with futures and/or commodities markets; energy markets and swaps experience is a strong plus.
- Systems-level fluency with Linux/Unix, Git, TCP/UDP and multicast networking, kernel-bypass stacks such as Onload, VMA, or DPDK, and performance profiling.
- Experience with distributed systems, large datasets, and SQL, NoSQL, or tick databases.
- Ability to program in Python, NumPy, and pandas for research and tooling.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and sound judgment in production trading environments.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or another technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- HSA, FSA, and dependent care options.
- Employer-paid group term life and AD&D insurance, plus voluntary LTD, life, and AD&D insurance.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Retirement plan with employer match.
- Base salary range of $180,000–$250,000 USD.
About DV Trading
DV Trading is a privately held proprietary trading firm that makes markets and deploys its own capital across equities, futures, options, and commodities. Headquartered in Chicago and founded in 2006, it operates globally and spun out of a large brokerage in 2016. The firm provides liquidity to exchanges and offers hedging solutions to commodity producers and users; affiliates include broker-dealers and a cryptocurrency market-making business.