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Software Engineer – C++

Hudson River Trading (HRT)Austin, TX, United States; Chicago, Illinois, United States; London, United Kingdom; New York, NY, United States
On-site Full-time

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The ideal candidate is recognized as a top developer within their organization, demonstrating exceptional productivity, technical prowess, and a willingness to assist peers. Key qualifications include: A minimum of 1 year of relevant professional experience in C++ software development. A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline. The ability to independently tackle complex engineering challenges while providing guidance to colleagues in your areas of expertise. Experience managing long-term architectural projects alongside swift troubleshooting of smaller tasks. A knack for articulating software designs at both high and low levels, ensuring clarity across teams. A continuous drive to enhance systems and processes.

About the job

Join the dynamic team at Wehrtyou, where innovation and technology converge to redefine the financial trading landscape. As a Senior C++ Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing and optimizing our live trading systems and research infrastructure. Your expertise in C++ will be instrumental in building high-performance, fault-tolerant systems that facilitate trading across global markets.

At Wehrtyou, our commitment to excellence drives our engineers to push the boundaries of what’s possible. By collaborating closely with researchers, traders, and hardware specialists, you will implement solutions that are crucial in a fast-paced environment where every microsecond counts.

Your projects will vary widely, including:

  • Enhancing infrastructure for market data, order entry, and execution logic across diverse asset classes like options, equities, futures, crypto, and fixed income.
  • Designing and improving fault-tolerant, low-latency systems for live trading, focusing on WAN data encoding and recovery from hardware failures.
  • Profiling and optimizing performance-critical code to maximize throughput and minimize latency in production settings.
  • Building and maintaining infrastructure that supports our client-facing wholesale and SDP platforms, distributed network filesystems, and scalable research workflows.
  • Developing software interfaces for specialized hardware such as FPGAs and ASICs integral to our trading systems.

About Hudson River Trading (HRT)

Wehrtyou is at the forefront of technological advancements in financial trading, leveraging state-of-the-art systems and a collaborative culture to empower our employees. We pride ourselves on our bottom-up approach to project management, allowing talented engineers the freedom to innovate and make impactful contributions. Join us in a challenging and competitive industry, working alongside some of the brightest minds in technology.

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