Lead Software Developer - Options Market Making- Leading Global Quant Fund | London, UK

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

Lead Software Developer - Options Market Making

Salary: up to £275k base

My client is a leading quant and systematic hedge fund, leveraging their deep knowledge of trading, technology and operations to deliver high-quality, uncorrelated returns. Now 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.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and developing a high-performance, event-driven options quoting engine - capable of maintaining large numbers of simultaneous two-sided quotes
• Building efficient quote lifecycle management
• Implementing intelligent quote prioritization, throttling and backpressure-handling when exchange or internal message-rate limits are reached
• Developing high-performance C++ components
• Profiling and tuning the full quote-to-exchange path to reduce gateway latency and maximize sustained throughput

This is a technology and data-driven firm, offering excellent opportunities for career growth. You'll be expected to be well-organized, proactive, resourceful; able to handle a fast-paced, dynamic environment, question the status quo; be accountable and possess an ownership mindset.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in options electronic market making, ideally with a strong focus on end-to-end quote lifecycle management
• Deep-level understanding of CPU architecture, memory hierarchy, caching, concurrency, networking, and Linux performance
• Demonstrated experience building low-latency, high-throughput, multithreaded systems
• Bonus points for inner workings knowledge of one or more US equity option exchanges

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a tech-driven environment with close collaboration between desks
• Market-leading compensation + generous benefits
• Relaxed, friendly culture, with a regular socials

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