C++ Software Developer

Headlands Technologies LLC; City of Amsterdam (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Headlands Tech is seeking a Software Developer (C++) to design, engineer, and implement the Firm’s trading software across multiple locations, including Amsterdam, Chicago, London, and New York. You will work with research, systems, and operations teams to build automated trading algorithms and scalable software infrastructure.

You’ll expand the proprietary research platform, improve performance, and support new exchanges and products.

Qualifications

• Degree in computing or equivalent; strong foundation in software engineering
• Extensive professional software development experience accepted in lieu of degree
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills; focus on robust, scalable solutions
• Ability to work in both collaborative and autonomous settings
• Commitment to automated, well-tested, maintainable code
• Experience with distributed systems and performance considerations

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve exchange connectivity and trading system components
• Extend functionality of existing infrastructure and research framework
• Design and implement scalable, automated trading software with thorough testing
• Address performance bottlenecks across code, libraries, and Linux
• Collaborate with research and operations teams to deploy new strategies
• Develop and maintain monitoring and instrumentation for trading strategies and infrastructure

Skills

C++

Linux

Software engineering fundamentals

Problem solving

Collaboration

Autonomy

Testing/QA

Education

Computing degree

Extensive software development experience

Tools

C++

Linux

Job description

Software Developer (C++) Job Description for Headlands Tech

Locations: Amsterdam; Chicago; London; New York

Scope

As a software developer at Headlands Tech you will design, engineer and implement the Firm’s trading software in the C++ programming language. You will work in close collaboration with the research, systems, and operations teams to architect, implement and analyze new automated electronic trading algorithms. You will play a key role in designing and constructing the Firm’s software infrastructure to support new and existing lines of business. In addition, you will expand the Firm’s proprietary research platform to improve performance and support new exchanges, products and functionality.

Qualifications

• Preferred degree in any computing related area (e.g., computer science, computer engineering, etc.)
• In lieu of this, extensive professional software development experience
• Well-versed in the fundamentals of software engineering
• Genuine interest in solving technical problems, along with a strong ability to implement solutions
• Low ego, able to work both in a collaborative team setting and autonomously
• Committed to designing and implementing fully automated, scalable, and maintainable solutions with extensive testing
• Superior ability to write in C++, or experience with other statically-typed imperative programming language
• Comfortable operating at various different levels of abstraction, from individual machines to large scale distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of the details of computing all throughout the technical stack
• Knowledge of Linux a plus
• Experience in the trading industry preferred but not mandatory

Day To Day

This isn't an exhaustive list, but represents a selection of the types of tasks that software developers at Headlands Tech take on while developing and maintaining a large scale 24 hour automated trading system.

• Build, maintain, and improve exchange connectivity
• Leverage existing infrastructure, extending functionality where necessary
• Build a deep understanding of exchange behavior to integrate into our existing trading system
• Maintain and extend core research infrastructure
• Design, implement, and maintain distributed storage systems with various different performance and reliability requirements
• Address performance limitations within our own software, open source libraries and applications, Linux, etc.
• 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 signal issues for trading system
• Reconcile differences between trading strategies performance in simulation versus production
• Investigate production trading issues in collaboration with operations, systems, and research teams
• Optimize the performance of the live trading system
• Measure latency and throughput through microbenchmarks, profiling, tracing, etc.
• Optimize existing code using lock free data structures, compiler intrinsics, etc.
• Develop new algorithms to address performance limitations at a higher abstraction layer
• Rearchitect components of the trading system to eliminate bottlenecks
• Fundamental network programming
• Implement low level networking protocols
• Investigate network captures to understand latency and behavior of both exchange and internal communication
• Ensure the continued stability and reliability of the trading system
• Build monitoring systems for trading strategies and all other pieces of our infrastructure
• Conduct code reviews of other developers, researchers and operations team members

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and to provide employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Headlands Tech are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. Headlands Tech will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.