Experienced Software Engineer - Low Level (C++)

Hudson River Trading•New York, NY

42d•$200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

At Hudson River Trading (HRT), C++ is at the center of our live trading systems and research infrastructure. Our C++ engineers build the highly performant, fault-tolerant systems that power trading across global markets. HRT's distributed system is on the Pareto frontier of latency and throughput, giving you limitless opportunity to leverage your deep knowledge of C++, OS internals, CPU architecture, and networking hardware and protocols. You'll work side-by-side with researchers, traders, and hardware specialists, implementing solutions where every microsecond matters. Our bottom-up approach to projects and our highly collaborative environment empower talented engineers to make significant contributions and see their impact daily. At HRT, you'll be challenged to solve complex problems in a fast-paced, highly competitive industry, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the field. C++ Engineers at HRT work on a wide variety of projects. Examples include: Develop and optimize infrastructure for market data, order entry and execution logic, spanning tens of asset classes including options, equities, futures, crypto, and fixed income. Design fault-tolerant, low-latency systems for live trading, including encoding/prioritization of data over WAN links and recovery from hardware failures. Profile and improve performance-critical code for both throughput and latency in production environments. Build and maintain infrastructure that drives products including client-facing wholesale and SDP platforms, distributed network filesystems, and scalable research workflows. Write software that interfaces with specialized hardware such as FPGAs and ASICs used in trading systems.

Requirements

1+ years of professional work experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
Advanced C++ experience is required, daily use preferred
Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize infrastructure for market data, order entry and execution logic, spanning tens of asset classes including options, equities, futures, crypto, and fixed income.
Design fault-tolerant, low-latency systems for live trading, including encoding/prioritization of data over WAN links and recovery from hardware failures.
Profile and improve performance-critical code for both throughput and latency in production environments.
Build and maintain infrastructure that drives products including client-facing wholesale and SDP platforms, distributed network filesystems, and scalable research workflows.
Write software that interfaces with specialized hardware such as FPGAs and ASICs used in trading systems.