Senior C++ Electronic Trading Developer –Equity Options Market Making recruitment

My client is a leading US Investment Bank with an excellent reputation for being at the forefront of cutting edge electronic trading technology. With a multimillion dollar investment in the automated market making space, the team is looking to expand as we move in to 2012. This is a small, focused team of around twenty, all based in New York. Together, the team has a very collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, well recognized within the bank as being one of its  most exciting and exclusive profit generating teams. Through further profits and expansion the team is seeking a senior C/C++ developer to take a key role on the team. You will design and develop the ultra low latency/real-time trading system, working closely alongside traders and quantitative analysts.

Responsibilities for Senior Electronic Trading C++ Software Engineer/Developer – Equity Options Market Making;

• Design and develop ultra low latency trading platform across equity options

• Work in a small and collaborative NY team (alongside traders, quants, researchers)

• Report into the business line

• Optimize market data

• Deal with large amounts of data

• Performance enhancements

• Live system support

Ideal Skill Set for Senior Electronic Trading C++ Software Engineer/Developer – Equity Options Market Making;

• C, C++

• STL

• Boost

• Python

• TCP/UDP/IP network programming

• Distributed systems development

• Low Latency Networking

• Linux kernel networking internals would be a huge advantage

• Deep high performance C++ systems programming background – research, telecommunications, trading systems etc

• Strong education – ideally computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering etc

This is a great opportunity to join a high performing group within a global leading Investment Bank. It is a unique role in that you will have the positives of working in a small and collaborative team similar to that of a hedge fund/prop trading firm, yet still have the financial support, stability and opportunity that it is offered to you in a leading global institution. The bank has a great reputation and over recent years have cemented themselves as one of the most forwarding thinking technology driven US banks. The team itself has a huge amount of backing and support from the senior members of the firm, with good prospects for 2012. Compensation bonus and benefits will all be competitive. For more information, please contact cplusplus@Selbyjennings.com or call 212 231 8223