Low-Latency C++ Algorithmic Trading Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Direct impact on strategy

Close collaboration with traders and Q

Job summary

Ingenuity Inc. in the New York metropolitan area is seeking a skilled C++ Algorithmic Developer to design and implement low-latency trading systems that run in live markets, collaborating with quantitative researchers and traders.

You will optimize hot paths, profile and benchmark code, and contribute to back-testing tooling while helping shape architecture and responding quickly to production issues. This full-time hybrid role offers equity participation and the chance to directly impact

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• 2+ years of professional experience developing algorithmic trading systems in equities, futures, FX, or another asset class.
• Strong, modern C++ proficiency (C++17/20/23) with understanding of performance characteristics.
• Experience writing low-latency code in a live production trading environment.
• Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and computational complexity.
• Hands-on Linux performance tuning: threading, CPU affinity, memory layout, cache optimization.
• Ability to reason about and measure latency at the microsecond level.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement low-latency C++ trading algorithms and execution logic for live equity and multi-asset strategies.
• Write performance-critical code with focus on minimizing latency and determinism.
• Profile, benchmark, and optimize hot-path code; reduce jitter and tail latency.
• Collaborate with quants to translate strategy specs into production-grade implementations.
• Develop and maintain back-testing and simulation tooling to validate algo behavior.
• Participate in code reviews, uphold engineering standards, and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Support live trading operations; investigate and resolve production issues quickly.

Skills

C++ proficiency

Low-latency design

Performance optimization

Linux performance tuning

Latency measurement

Collaboration with quants

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

CMake

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Job description

Ingenuity Inc. in the New York metropolitan area is seeking a skilled C++ Algorithmic Developer to design and implement low-latency trading systems that run in live markets, collaborating with quantitative researchers and traders.

You will optimize hot paths, profile and benchmark code, and contribute to back-testing tooling while helping shape architecture and responding quickly to production issues. This full-time hybrid role offers equity participation and the chance to directly impact