Remote Lead Engineer (Russian) - Quant Trading & HFT Systems

Understanding Recruitment

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

32 hours ago
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Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Russian-speaking Lead Engineer for a fully remote, globally distributed proprietary trading environment. The role focuses on leading greenfield development within the trading platform and driving architecture decisions with broad ownership across trading and risk domains.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years in software engineering, deep experience in systematic quantitative trading, and fluency in Russian.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Extensive experience in systematic quantitative trading.
  • Understanding of HFT or performance-sensitive trading systems.
  • Strong system design and architecture skills.
  • Expertise with low-level programming language.
  • Fluent in Russian.

Responsibilities

  • Own greenfield developments within the trading platform.
  • Build new parts of trading or risk architecture.
  • Lead expansion into new markets or exchanges.
  • Design systems and integrations from the ground up.
  • Work directly with trading and business stakeholders.
  • Own technical and commercial decisions end-to-end.

Skills

Software engineering
System design
Performance-sensitive systems
HFT exposure
Low-level programming
Independence & ownership
Russian language

Job description

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Russian-speaking Lead Engineer for a fully remote, globally distributed proprietary trading environment. The role focuses on leading greenfield development within the trading platform and driving architecture decisions with broad ownership across trading and risk domains.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years in software engineering, deep experience in systematic quantitative trading, and fluency in Russian.

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