Real-Time Options Trading Full-Stack Engineer

Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Retirement Plan

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

Citadel Securities in New York is seeking an experienced software engineer to help define and build the next generation of high-touch pricing and trading workflow tools for Options traders. You will collaborate with traders, researchers, and business leaders to design workflows that improve pricing, execution, and risk management.

The role covers full stack development across frontend, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, with opportunities to expand into new markets and instruments

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building full-stack applications with frontend and backend technologies.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and React.
• Experience designing scalable backend services in C++ or Python.
• Experience building distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience developing real-time, high-performance applications.
• Strong API design and event-driven architecture knowledge.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and build the next generation of high-touch pricing and trading workflow tools for Options traders.
• Partner directly with traders, quantitative researchers, sales teams, and business leaders to design workflows that improve pricing, execution, and risk management.
• Build full stack applications spanning modern web frontends, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Develop intuitive, high-performance user interfaces that enable traders to research, monitor, price, and execute trades in real time.
• Design scalable backend services that support pricing, workflow orchestration, market data, and trading operations.
• Build systems to support markets and option instruments Citadel Securities has never traded before.
• Gain exposure to multiple global markets while helping expand Citadel Securities' Options platform internationally.
• Prototype new ideas quickly while evolving them into robust production systems.
• Analyze complex business and technical problems and deliver elegant software solutions across the firm.
• Continuously improve performance, scalability, stability, and usability of mission-critical trading applications.
• Collaborate across engineering, quantitative research, and trading teams to translate complex financial concepts into intuitive software.

Job description

Citadel Securities in New York is seeking an experienced software engineer to help define and build the next generation of high-touch pricing and trading workflow tools for Options traders. You will collaborate with traders, researchers, and business leaders to design workflows that improve pricing, execution, and risk management.

The role covers full stack development across frontend, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, with opportunities to expand into new markets and instruments