SW Architect – Systematic Trading

Living Talent Company; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Living Talent Company seeks an elite Senior Software Architect to design mission-critical front-office trading systems across equities, futures and FX for a high-performance investment firm. You will own architecture decisions and drive scalable, low-latency platforms with millions of daily transactions.

You will mentor senior engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with traders and researchers to translate complex trading logic into robust systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software architecture and systems engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in low-latency, distributed computing and high-performance data processing.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field expected.

Responsibilities

• Architect mission-critical front-office trading systems across equities, futures, and FX.
• Design scalable, low-latency trading architectures handling millions of transactions daily.
• Lead architectural decisions, balance performance, reliability and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and set engineering standards across the organization.
• Collaborate with traders and quants to translate trading logic into robust systems.

Skills

12+ years experience

Low-latency systems

Distributed computing

Mentoring senior engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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Architect mission-critical front-office trading systems across equities, futures, and FX at a high-performance investment management firm, earning $220k–$270k/yr as a SW Architect. This is an elite senior role for world-class software engineers ready to own large-scale, high-impact trading infrastructure.

You'll design scalable, low-latency trading systems that process millions of transactions daily, lead architectural decisions balancing performance, reliability, and maintainability across the trading stack, mentor senior engineers and set engineering standards across the organization, collaborate with traders and quantitative researchers to translate trading logic into robust systems, and oversee system upgrades and technology migrations.

You need 12+ years of software architecture and systems engineering experience with deep expertise in low-latency systems, distributed computing, and high-performance data processing. A bachelor's degree in computer science or related field is expected. Proven experience scaling trading systems at major financial institutions is essential.

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