Lead Real-Time Options Quoting Engine Engineer

Oxford Knight; Greater London; On-site; GBP 248,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Generous benefits

Friendly culture

Job summary

Oxford Knight is seeking a highly experienced Lead Software Developer to design, build, and optimize the core technology behind real-time option quote management across US equity options markets.

You will design a high-performance, event-driven quoting engine, implement lifecycle management, and tune the quote-to-exchange path to maximize throughput while minimizing latency. Salary up to £275k base.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in options electronic market making
• Deep understanding of CPU architecture, memory hierarchy, caching
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, multithreaded systems
• Bonus: knowledge of US equity option exchanges

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing a high-performance, event-driven options quoting engine
• Building efficient quote lifecycle management
• Implementing intelligent quote prioritization, throttling and backpressure handling
• Developing high-performance C++ components
• Profiling and tuning the quote-to-exchange path to reduce latency

Skills

C++

Low-latency

Multithreading

Linux performance

Market making

Job description

Oxford Knight is seeking a highly experienced Lead Software Developer to design, build, and optimize the core technology behind real-time option quote management across US equity options markets.

You will design a high-performance, event-driven quoting engine, implement lifecycle management, and tune the quote-to-exchange path to maximize throughput while minimizing latency. Salary up to £275k base.