Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Our Senior Software Engineers build and improve the real-time systems that power our options market-making business. They work directly with traders and other technologists to translate complex business and trading requirements into reliable production software, and take ownership of critical systems from initial design through deployment and live operation. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can reason deeply about software architecture, performance, and production behavior. Within 1 month, you will complete your initial orientation and begin developing a working understanding of our options market-making business, trading systems, and production technology environment. You will become familiar with our codebases, system architecture, historical and real-time data, deployment processes, monitoring tools, and risk controls. You will build working relationships with traders, developers, quantitative researchers, and infrastructure engineers, begin participating in technical design and code reviews, and make initial contributions to the production system. Within 3 months, you will take end-to-end ownership of a meaningful trading-system enhancement. You will work directly with stakeholders to define the problem, understand the operational and performance requirements, design and implement the solution, and validate your work in non-production environments. You will coordinate deployment with appropriate monitoring and controls, participate effectively in production support, and begin identifying opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability. You will study for and pass the FINRA Series 57 exam, enabling you to independently lead projects that directly impact trading decisions. Within 6 months, you will be a trusted technical owner for one or more important components of the trading platform. You will independently lead complex projects from initial concept through production operation, make informed architectural and performance tradeoffs, and deliver measurable improvements in trading capability, system performance, reliability, or developer productivity. You will proactively address technical debt and operational risk, improve testing and observability, mentor other developers, and help establish engineering practices that allow the team to move quickly without compromising correctness. Your growing understanding of our markets and trading systems will enable you to identify and drive new opportunities to improve the platform.
Requirements
- Substantial professional software development experience throughout the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Strong software engineering instincts, treating abstraction, maintainability, testability, observability, and operational reliability as first-class design concerns.
- Experience developing real-time, high-throughput software for electronic trading, financial markets, or another performance-sensitive production environment.
- Ability to lead technical design discussions, make pragmatic architectural decisions, mentor other developers, and improve engineering standards across the team.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Comfortable designing new systems in a distributed architecture.
- Comfortable reasoning about performance tradeoffs.
- Comfortable diagnosing difficult production issues.
- Takes ownership of systems after they are deployed.
- Can raise the technical standard of a team while continuing to write and deliver high-quality software.
- Experience with heavily-optimized C#.
- Experience with C++ integrated into performance-sensitive components.
- Demonstrated engineering ability over experience with a particular language.
- Embrace agentic AI workflows.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve real-time systems for options market-making.
- Translate complex business and trading requirements into reliable production software.
- Take ownership of critical systems from initial design through deployment and live operation.
- Reason deeply about software architecture, performance, and production behavior.
- Lead technical design discussions and make pragmatic architectural decisions.
- Mentor other developers and improve engineering standards.
- Explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Take end-to-end ownership of trading-system enhancements.
- Coordinate deployment with appropriate monitoring and controls.
- Participate effectively in production support.
- Identify opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead complex projects from initial concept through production operation.
- Proactively address technical debt and operational risk.
- Improve testing and observability.
- Establish engineering practices that allow the team to move quickly without compromising correctness.
- Identify and drive new opportunities to improve the platform.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Performance-based bonus
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plans with employer matching
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Generous vacation time
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for health care, dependent daycare, and parking or mass transit expenses
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
