Senior Quantitative Trading Systems Engineer

Hunter Bond; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is partnering with a leading quantitative investment firm in Houston, TX, seeking senior software engineers with strong mathematical and analytical ability to join at the intersection of technology, trading and strategy.

The role goes beyond traditional development: candidates must understand trading problems, think commercially, and translate them into scalable tech solutions used for research, backtesting and production trading.

Qualifications

• Strong mathematical and analytical ability.
• Experience with software engineering in a trading context.
• Experience collaborating with a trading desk, quant or strategy team.
• Commercial mindset and interest in financial markets.
• Ability to translate trading problems into scalable technology.

Responsibilities

• Understand trading problems and determine how technology creates value for trading functions.
• Develop, test and scale solutions for research, backtesting and production trading.
• Work across distributed systems and data pipelines to support quantitative workflows.

Skills

Mathematical ability

Software engineering

Trading desk collaboration

C++

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

CI/CD

Data pipelines

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

CI/CD tools

Backtesting frameworks

Job description

Hunter Bond is partnering with a leading quantitative investment firm in Houston, TX, seeking senior software engineers with strong mathematical and analytical ability to join at the intersection of technology, trading and strategy.

The role goes beyond traditional development: candidates must understand trading problems, think commercially, and translate them into scalable tech solutions used for research, backtesting and production trading.