Senior C++ Front-Office Options Trading Engineer

Selby Jennings; Bala Cynwyd (PA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a Senior C++ Engineer to join its Options Trading team. You will partner directly with traders and quantitative researchers to develop, optimize, and deploy automated trading strategies in real time.

This front-office role emphasizes collaboration, fast feedback, and measurable impact on trading performance. Candidates should have strong C++ experience, performance optimization skills, and comfort working in Windows-based environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building performance-sensitive applications.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with end users.
• Desire to work in a highly collaborative, front-office environment.
• Willingness to develop in a Windows-based technology stack.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance automated options trading strategies and execution systems.
• Partner directly with traders and quantitative researchers to bring new ideas into production.
• Optimize systems for execution speed, reliability, and scalability.
• Build real-time applications that identify and capitalize on market opportunities.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and the evolution of the firm's trading platform.
• Work on business-critical systems with direct visibility into trading performance.

Skills

C++

Performance optimization

Communication

Front-office collaboration

Windows development

Tools

TCP/UDP networking

Multithreading

Real-time systems

Job description

Selby Jennings is seeking a Senior C++ Engineer to join its Options Trading team. You will partner directly with traders and quantitative researchers to develop, optimize, and deploy automated trading strategies in real time.

This front-office role emphasizes collaboration, fast feedback, and measurable impact on trading performance. Candidates should have strong C++ experience, performance optimization skills, and comfort working in Windows-based environments.