C++ Software Engineer (New Grad) - Trading Systems

Headlands Technologies LLC; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Headlands Tech is seeking a C++ Software Developer for New Grad roles in Amsterdam or Chicago. You will design, engineer and implement trading software in C++ and collaborate with research, systems, and operations teams to build automated electronic trading algorithms and scalable infrastructure.

The role emphasizes working on a large-scale 24-hour system, extending exchange connectivity, researching performance improvements, and contributing to prototype and production deployments with

Qualifications

• Degree in computing or equivalent practical software development experience.
• Strong fundamentals of software engineering.
• Ability to design scalable, automated, maintainable solutions with extensive testing.
• Proficiency in C++ or other statically-typed languages.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve exchange connectivity.
• Leverage existing infrastructure, extending functionality where necessary.
• Build understanding of exchange behavior to integrate into the trading system.
• Maintain and extend core research infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and maintain distributed storage systems with varying performance needs.
• Investigate new technologies to improve stability, scalability, and performance.
• Implement new trading strategies in collaboration with research and operations teams.
• Extend strategy framework to enable new behaviors and improve existing ones.
• Investigate production trading issues in collaboration with teams.
• Optimize the performance of the live trading system.

Skills

C++

Linux knowledge

Automated testing

Distributed systems

Collaborative teamwork

Autonomy

Education

Computing degree

Extensive software development experience

Job description

Headlands Tech is seeking a C++ Software Developer for New Grad roles in Amsterdam or Chicago. You will design, engineer and implement trading software in C++ and collaborate with research, systems, and operations teams to build automated electronic trading algorithms and scalable infrastructure.

The role emphasizes working on a large-scale 24-hour system, extending exchange connectivity, researching performance improvements, and contributing to prototype and production deployments with