Elite C++ Engineer for Low-Latency Trading Systems

Summit Securities Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipends

Fully stocked kitchens

Happy hours

Great location with amazing colleagues

Job summary

Summit Securities Group is seeking an elite Software Engineer to join our options trading team, focusing on technology, statistics, time-series data, and high-performance systems. You will work beside traders and researchers to implement strategies, optimize trading systems, and expand the core platform.

This role requires engineering rigor and strong judgment: own key projects end-to-end, translate requirements into clean designs, and deliver robust systems for real-world trading challenges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of elite software engineering experience in production systems.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• Deep command of C++, object-oriented design, templates, concurrency, and multithreaded programming.
• Strong understanding of modern computing systems and micro-architecture.
• Experience with network programming APIs, including direct socket-level programming.
• Ability to select data structures and algorithms for low-latency engineering problems.
• Proven experience designing, improving, and maintaining clean, reusable frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build Trading Systems: Design, implement, and improve systems that support options trading strategies, research workflows, and live trading infrastructure.
• Own Core Projects: Take projects from ambiguous stakeholder need through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
• Optimize Performance: Improve latency, throughput, reliability, and scalability across performance-sensitive components.
• Engineer Clean Frameworks: Build reusable, maintainable software frameworks that accelerate trader and researcher experimentation.
• Work Close to the Desk: Collaborate with traders and researchers to understand strategy requirements and ship practical solutions.
• Solve Low-Latency Problems: Choose data structures, algorithms, and architectural patterns for high-performance use cases.

Skills

C++ Expertise

Systems Fluency

Networking Depth

CS Fundamentals

Architecture Judgment

5+ Years Experience

Education

Undergraduate CS/CE degree

Job description

Summit Securities Group is seeking an elite Software Engineer to join our options trading team, focusing on technology, statistics, time-series data, and high-performance systems. You will work beside traders and researchers to implement strategies, optimize trading systems, and expand the core platform.

This role requires engineering rigor and strong judgment: own key projects end-to-end, translate requirements into clean designs, and deliver robust systems for real-world trading challenges.