Senior C++ Low-Latency Trading Engineer

Rippling, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct access to founders

Ownership from day one

Proprietary trading models

Mentorship & reviews

Chicago-based office

Health, dental, vision coverage

Job summary

Edgehog Trading in Chicago is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize low-latency trading systems. You’ll work closely with traders and engineers to translate ideas into robust, production-ready code, with a focus on performance and reliability.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, problem solving, and owning meaningful parts of the firm’s proprietary trading systems. A competitive compensation package and a collaborative environment are provided.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience at an options market making firm.
• Strong proficiency in modern C++.
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency).
• Strong debugging, profiling, and performance-tuning skills.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment and familiar with system-level programming.
• Possess strong intuition for selecting sensible default behaviors and parameter values.
• Ability to translate business goals and ideas into scalable production code.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize low-latency C++ applications for trading strategy execution.
• Collaborate closely with traders and other engineers to translate ideas into robust, production-ready systems.
• Conduct diagnostic assessments and perform foundational data analysis to identify key issues, enabling data-driven prioritization of tasks and resources.
• Modify inter-application behaviors and component interactions in a safe, testable, and controlled manner.
• Rewrite complicated Java applications into C++.
• Optimize production code and other system components to achieve low-latency and high-throughput capabilities.

Skills

Modern C++

Concurrency

Data structures

Algorithms

Debugging

Performance tuning

Linux

System-level programming

Production code

Job description

Edgehog Trading in Chicago is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize low-latency trading systems. You’ll work closely with traders and engineers to translate ideas into robust, production-ready code, with a focus on performance and reliability.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, problem solving, and owning meaningful parts of the firm’s proprietary trading systems. A competitive compensation package and a collaborative environment are provided.