C# Algo Developer| Options Market Making | Experienced Hire New

Trading Interview; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Susquehanna International Group (SIG) is hiring talented engineers for the Strategy Development team in the United States. This role focuses on building high performance, low-latency software for quantitative trading, collaborating with quants and traders to refine and deploy strategies in production.

You will work on processing massive data, improving infrastructure, and delivering fast feedback loops in a meritocratic, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive industry experience building high performance, high throughput systems.
• Proficiency in C# or Java is required.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Prior experience leading a team or driving architecture decisions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Enhance alpha generation and improve strategy and research infrastructure.
• Work with large-scale tick market data and multiple data sources to understand market dynamics and produce signals.
• Iterate with quants and traders to implement ideas into production with rapid turnaround.

Skills

C#

Java

Distributed systems

Microservices

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

MS or PhD (preferred)

Tools

C++ (nice to have)

Job description

Job Type Full-time

Posted 7 days ago

The role

Job description

Overview
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

We are hiring talented engineers to join our elite Strategy Development team. This is a computationally intensive role that will allow you to utilize both your data analysis and technology skills.

As a part of this team you will be on the front lines of the business iterating with quants and traders to enhance, refine, and evolve strategies. We’re looking for someone who has experience with highly performance-sensitive code. This is a great opportunity to work in a non-siloed, collaborative meritocracy on challenging problems with other scientists and engineers who have an impressive record both academically and in the workplace.

What You’ll Do

• Enhance alpha generation and improve our strategy and research infrastructure.
• Tap into tens of petabytes of raw and well-prepped full tick market data, strategy decisions, fundamentals, and many other data sources to understand market dynamics and find new signals
• Take advantage of rapid turnaround cycles, where you’ll see the efforts of strategy ideas implemented into production quickly

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of progressive industry experience developing high performance, high throughput systems
• Expertise in C# or Java is required
• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture
• Prior experience working with C++ is a plus
• Prior experience leading a team or driving architecture decisions preferred
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or closely related discipline (Ideally MS or PhD)

About Susquehanna

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

• 5+ years of progressive industry experience developing high performance, high throughput systems
• Expertise in C# or Java is required
• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture
• Prior experience working with C++ is a plus
• Prior experience leading a team or driving architecture decisions preferred
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or closely related discipline (Ideally MS or PhD)

About Susquehanna

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

This description was published by Susquehanna International Group (SIG). Applications are handled on their careers site: we are not the employer and cannot process them.

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