Senior Trading Systems Engineer (Low-Latency, AWS)

Statar Capital, LLC; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

401(K) plan with employer matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Statar Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on global futures markets, seeks a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join the technology team in a high-performance trading environment.

You will design, build, and own end-to-end systems connecting traders and researchers to markets, spanning low-level gateways to cloud orchestration on AWS. Remote-friendly with on-site options in Miami.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience building trading systems at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or market maker.
• Experience designing and building complete systems end-to-end, with a deep understanding of how they work at a low level.
• Close work with a trading desk and strong knowledge of the markets and securities traded.
• Modern C++ (17/20), including lock-free queues, memory layout, mmap and shared memory, profiling, sanitizers, and CMake.
• Strong production Python, including services, async programming, typing, and testing.
• Market data experience: exchange feeds (MBO/MBP, L2/L3 books), symbology, instrument definitions and amendments, and replay and backfill.
• Order flow experience: OMS/EMS concepts, the order lifecycle, pre-trade risk checks, and the flow from fills to positions to PnL.
• FIX protocol: sessions, sequence and resend recovery, broker dialects, and drop copy.
• Messaging: Kafka and/or Redis pub/sub, and binary serialization (FlatBuffers, SBE, protobuf).
• SQL and Postgres, including schema design and migrations.
• Ability to own infrastructure independently at an operator level: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and AWS.
• Experience designing and building AI-based infrastructure, including async agents.

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency trading infrastructure in modern C++, including exchange and broker gateways.
• Build and maintain market data systems, including exchange feed handlers, order book construction, instrument definitions and amendments, and replay and backfill.
• Build order management and execution components covering the order lifecycle, pre-trade risk checks, and the flow from fills to positions to PnL.
• Implement and operate FIX connectivity with brokers and exchanges, including session and sequence recovery and drop copy.
• Build production Python services and the messaging layer that connects them, using Kafka, Redis, and binary serialization formats.
• Design, optimize, and migrate databases that support trading and research workloads.
• Deploy and own cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, including orchestration of production workloads.
• Design and build AI-based infrastructure, including async agents.
• Work directly with traders and researchers to turn desk requirements into production systems.
• Document system architecture and operating procedures.

Skills

Low-latency systems

C++ 17/20

End-to-end trading

Trading desk collaboration

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

GitOps

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

FlatBuffers

SBE

Protobuf

Mmap/shared memory

CMake

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Statar Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on global futures markets, seeks a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join the technology team in a high-performance trading environment.

You will design, build, and own end-to-end systems connecting traders and researchers to markets, spanning low-level gateways to cloud orchestration on AWS. Remote-friendly with on-site options in Miami.