Senior Core Platform Engineer - Low-Latency Trading (C++)

Point Three Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Point Three Group is seeking a Core Platform Engineer in New York City to join its technology team. The role focuses on building tools and core frameworks to support research and trading, with emphasis on low-latency, scalable infrastructure and robust API development.

The candidate will work on optimizing performance across hardware to software, deploying automation, and collaborating with traders and researchers to implement trading strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of software development experience in a low-latency environment.
• Experience building applications for research and trading.
• Strong OO design, API development, and multi-threaded programming.

Responsibilities

• Build or deploy tools for researchers and traders to design, test, and deploy trading strategies.
• Create and maintain robust frameworks and libraries for modeling and trading applications.
• Develop and optimize trading and data infrastructure and APIs for seamless integration.
• Implement automation to enable swift, reliable deployments.
• Optimize trading systems performance for latency, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with traders and researchers to deploy trading strategies.

Skills

C++

Low-latency

API development

Multi-threaded

Network programming

Cloud/IaC

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Point Three Group is seeking a Core Platform Engineer in New York City to join its technology team. The role focuses on building tools and core frameworks to support research and trading, with emphasis on low-latency, scalable infrastructure and robust API development.

The candidate will work on optimizing performance across hardware to software, deploying automation, and collaborating with traders and researchers to implement trading strategies.