C++ Developer

Boerboel•Chicago, IL

6d•$100,000 - $175,000•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking highly motivated and talented people to join the Boerboel team. As a member of the team you will be working with passionate and curious colleagues who thrive on solving complex problems. Boerboel is an office-first firm. While we offer flexibility to our employees, remote work is not available at this time. Boerboel Trading is an electronic trading firm, active across a wide range of asset classes and regions, with offices in NYC, Chicago, London, Malta and the Cayman Islands. We engage in rigorous quantitative analysis to deploy systematic trading strategies over multiple time horizons. Trading and research employees of the firm are graduates from a wide spectrum of quantitative disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, mathematics and physics. Our employees apply their scientific methodologies to the analysis of extensive financial data sets.

Requirements

5+ years coding in C++ focused on high-performance or low-latency server programming
Detailed knowledge of Linux systems, network programming, and CPU architectures
Knowledge of market data protocols and order entry for global exchanges
Experience profiling and optimization code
Experience with packet capture, packet dissection, and packet replay
Experience with parallel programming, including threads and lock-free programming

Nice To Haves

Finance experience a plus

Responsibilities

Develop C++ code for our core trading engine, for all exchange-traded asset classes
Liaise with quantitative researchers to create software to support research, analysis, backtesting, and live trading
Design and architect world-class low latency trading solutions by understanding networks, server architecture, and how software can best take advantage of the hardware