Design, test, and deploy high-frequency futures strategies by translating mathematical models into optimized C++ code. Build research infrastructure including simulation and data pipelines to test ideas at scale across modern hardware. Requires expert-level C++, strong mathematical foundations, and a deep understanding of market microstructure.
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A leading global trading firm is hiring a Quantitative Developer into a low-latency team trading futures at a high-frequency trading firm, based in New York. The seat sits at the exact junction of quantitative research and production engineering: turning hypotheses about market microstructure into measurable trading outcomes, and building the systems that make that loop fast. It reports into senior research-engineering leadership.
What you'll do:
- Partner with quantitative researchers to design, test and deploy high-frequency futures strategies, owning the path from hypothesis to production.
- Investigate market microstructure at the finest grain: how orders arrive, queue and move prices, and where measurable edge actually lives.
- Translate mathematical models into highly optimised, production-grade C++, and profile relentlessly - performance wins here are visible in results, fast.
- Build the research infrastructure around the strategies: simulation, data pipelines and tooling that let ideas be tested at scale.
- Work across modern hardware - CPU, GPU and TPU - choosing the right silicon for each problem.
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Your profile:
- Expert-level C++ with a track record of building high-performance software, and deep systems understanding: memory, caches, concurrency, profiling.
- Strong mathematical and statistical foundations - equally comfortable reasoning about a model and reading a flame graph.
- Python for research tooling.
- Industry experience at a trading firm, exchange or similarly latency-obsessed environment is strongly preferred; exceptional systems engineers with a demonstrated interest in markets (internships, credible side projects) will be considered.
- Genuine curiosity about markets is non-negotiable - the interview process tests it early, and candidates who see finance as interchangeable with any other C++ job do not progress.
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Why this role:
Most engineering roles in trading are adjacent to the research; this one is inside it. You own outcomes, not tickets: the hypothesis, the implementation and the measurement all pass through your hands, on a team small enough that your work is visible to the very top of the engineering organisation.
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- This is a full-time, on-site role based in New York; fully remote candidates will not be considered.
- Applicants must have the right to live and work in the US, or be eligible for sponsorship (confirmed case by case).
- Please ensure you meet the required experience prior to applying.
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