Lead Real-Time Options Quoting Engineer

Tradermath; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tradermath is seeking a highly experienced Lead Software Developer to design, build, and optimize the core technology behind real-time option quote management across U.S. equity options markets. The role requires hands-on leadership in high-performance C++ systems and end-to-end quote lifecycle.

You will work on event-driven architectures, low-latency networking, and NUMA-aware optimizations, collaborating with traders and quant teams to maintain scalable, reliable quotes under peak volumes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in options electronic market making with end-to-end quote lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of CPU architecture, memory hierarchy, caching, concurrency, networking, and Linux performance.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, multithreaded systems.
• Knowledge of the inner workings of US equity option exchanges is highly preferred.

Skills

Real-time systems design

Low-latency programming

Multithreaded systems

Linux performance

Tools

C++

Lock-free data structures

NUMA awareness

IPC

Job description

Tradermath is seeking a highly experienced Lead Software Developer to design, build, and optimize the core technology behind real-time option quote management across U.S. equity options markets. The role requires hands-on leadership in high-performance C++ systems and end-to-end quote lifecycle.

You will work on event-driven architectures, low-latency networking, and NUMA-aware optimizations, collaborating with traders and quant teams to maintain scalable, reliable quotes under peak volumes.