C++ Quant Developer | Options Trading | Experienced Hire
About The Position
As a Senior Quantitative Developer on the Options Market Making Development team, you will play a critical role in designing and optimizing the systems that drive our electronic options market making trading strategies. This role is highly performance-sensitive and offers the opportunity to work across both software and hardware-based infrastructure and algorithms. You’ll collaborate closely with traders, quants, and engineers to build and refine strategies that operate in some of the most competitive and latency-sensitive markets. A key part of your work will involve experimentation and iteration around strategy execution, enabling us to adapt quickly to changing market conditions.
Requirements
- At least 4+ years of programming experience in C++, with a deep understanding of high-throughput and systems-level performance is required
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with traders, researchers, and other developers to iterate quickly on ideas
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field
Nice To Haves
- Background in developing performance-critical systems that integrate tightly with hardware, such as FPGAs, is a plus
- Python/Pandas experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-performance trading algorithms and contribute to the evolution of our low-latency trading infrastructure for electronic options trading
- Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to iterate on execution logic, signal integration, and market interaction models
- Drive experimentation frameworks that allow for rapid testing of execution hypotheses, including microstructure-aware tactics, order placement logic, and adaptive strategies
- Tap into tens of petabytes of raw and well prepped full tick market data, strategy decisions, fundamentals, and many other data sources to understand market dynamics and find new signals
- Work on hybrid systems that combine software algorithms with hardware acceleration like FPGAs
Benefits
- Susquehanna offers a wide array of employee perks & benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
