C++ Quant Developer | Options Trading | Experienced Hire

SIG Susquehanna; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Susquehanna International Group is seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer for the Options Market Taking Development team. The role focuses on designing and optimizing systems for latency-sensitive electronic options trading across software and hardware infrastructure.

You will collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers to refine strategies and execution logic. The position emphasizes experimentation, rapid testing of hypotheses, and integration with hardware accelerators like FPGAs to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related technical field.
• 4+ years of programming in C++, with high-throughput and systems-level performance experience.
• Experience developing performance-critical systems that integrate tightly with hardware (FPGAs) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance trading algorithms and contribute to low-latency infrastructure for electronic options trading.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to iterate on execution logic and market interaction models.
• Drive experimentation frameworks for rapid testing of execution hypotheses and adaptive strategies.
• Analyze massive tick market data to identify signals and improve strategy decisions.
• Work on hybrid systems combining software with hardware acceleration like FPGAs.

Skills

C++

High-throughput systems

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Physics

Tools

FPGAs

Python

Pandas

Job description

Overview

As aSenior Quantitative Developeron theOptions 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 bothsoftware 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 involveexperimentation 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 combinesoftware algorithmswithhardware 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.