C++ Quant Developer | Options Trading | Experienced Hire

Susquehanna International; Bala Cynwyd (PA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Susquehanna International Group is seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer for the Options Market Taking Development team in Bala Cynwyd, PA. You will design and optimize systems that drive our electronic options market taking trading strategies, focusing on performance-sensitive software and hardware integration.

You’ll collaborate with traders, quants and engineers to build, test and refine strategies, including FPGA-accelerated components and low-latency execution paths.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of programming in C++ with high-throughput, low-latency performance.
• Experience on hardware-integrated systems (FPGAs) is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE/Physics or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize high-performance trading algorithms and low-latency infrastructure.
• Collaborate with quants, traders, and engineers to refine execution models.
• Experiment with strategy execution and hardware-software co-design.
• Work with large tick data and multiple data sources.

Skills

C++ high-performance

FPGA integration

Python/Pandas

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE/Physics

Tools

FPGAs

Low-latency systems

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Quantitative Developer on the Options Market Taking Development team, you will play a critical role in designing and optimizing the systems that drive our electronic options market taking trading strategies. This role is highly performance-sensitive and offers the opportunity to work across both software and hardware-based infrastructure and algorithms.

As a Senior Quantitative Developer on the Options Market Taking Development team, you will play a critical role in designing and optimizing the systems that drive our electronic options market taking trading strategies. This role is highly performance-sensitive and offers the opportunity to work across both software and hardware-based infrastructure and algorithms. You’ll collaborate closely with traders, quants, and engineers to build and refine strategies that operate in some of the most competitive and latency-sensitive markets. A key part of your work will involve experimentation and iteration around strategy execution, enabling us to adapt quickly to changing market conditions.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Design and implement high-performance trading algorithms and contribute to the evolution of our low-latency trading infrastructure for electronic options trading
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to iterate on execution logic, signal integration, and market interaction models
• Drive experimentation frameworks that allow for rapid testing of execution hypotheses, including microstructure-aware tactics, order placement logic, and adaptive strategies
• 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
• Work on hybrid systems that combine software algorithms with hardware acceleration like FPGAs

What You Can Expect From Us

Real Impact

By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration

Our systems engineers, network architects, technical analysts and software developers work together to create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions.

Growth

For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits

Susquehanna offers a wide array of employee perks & benefits. Learn more about the workplace culture & software engineer experience at Susquehanna International Group from technologists like you.

What We're Looking For

• At least 4+ years of programming experience in C++, with a deep understanding of high-throughput and systems-level performance is required
• Background in developing performance-critical systems that integrate tightly with hardware, such as FPGAs, is a plus
• Python/Pandas experience is a plus
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with traders, researchers, and other developers to iterate quickly on ideas
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field

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.

What We Do

We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.