Full-Stack Software Engineer – Options Trading Platform

Citadel Securities; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive compensation

Medical and life insurance

Retirement plans

Job summary

Citadel Securities is hiring for an Options Trading Workflow Engineer to build next-generation pricing and trading tools. You will work with traders, researchers, sales, and leadership to design workflows that enhance pricing, execution, and risk management in real time.

You will develop full-stack applications across modern web frontends, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, delivering high-performance interfaces for research, pricing, and trading.

Qualifications

• Experience building full-stack applications with modern frontend and backend technologies.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and React.
• Experience designing scalable backend services using C++ or Python.

Responsibilities

• Define the next generation of high-touch pricing and trading workflow tools for Options traders.
• Partner with traders, researchers, sales, and business leaders to design workflows that improve pricing, execution, and risk management.
• Build full-stack applications spanning frontend, backend, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Develop intuitive, high-performance user interfaces enabling real-time research, pricing, and trading.
• Design scalable backend services to support pricing, workflow orchestration, market data, and trading operations.
• Build systems to support new option instruments and markets globally.
• Gain exposure to multiple markets while expanding Citadel Securities' Options platform internationally.
• Prototype ideas quickly and evolve them into robust production systems.
• Analyze complex business and technical problems and deliver elegant software solutions.

Skills

TypeScript

React

C++

Python

API design

Distributed systems

Asynchronous systems

Event-driven architectures

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Job description

Citadel Securities is hiring for an Options Trading Workflow Engineer to build next-generation pricing and trading tools. You will work with traders, researchers, sales, and leadership to design workflows that enhance pricing, execution, and risk management in real time.

You will develop full-stack applications across modern web frontends, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, delivering high-performance interfaces for research, pricing, and trading.