FLOW TRADERS-posted 3 months ago
$185,000 - $250,000/Yr
Chicago, IL
501-1,000 employees
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Flow Traders US is seeking talented C++ Engineers to join our growing team in Chicago. Software Engineers at Flow Traders provide us with our competitive edge, equipping researchers and traders with the information and capabilities that they need to make sound business decisions. C++ plays a critical role in our event-driven trading systems, which are designed to reliably handle vast amounts of data at ultra-low latencies. As a C++ Engineer, you will build systems used to analyze and trade tens of thousands of products across hundreds of global trading venues every day. Working closely with technologists, quantitative researchers and traders, you'll guide the development of our in-house trading technology and optimize it to achieve market-leading performance and reliability. Teamwork is one of our most important firm values and end users are never more than a short walk away, guaranteeing short feedback loops and immediate insight into the value that your code provides. To foster collaboration and innovation, we maintain shared libraries, encourage code re-use, and continuously evolve our views on application architecture.

  • Design and deliver trading systems that process billions of market data updates, orders and trading decisions across thousands of products on hundred of global trading venues every day
  • Measure and optimize performance to achieve best-in-class reliability, latency and throughput
  • Collaborate directly with global colleagues across Technology, Trading and Quantitative Research to shape the direction of our proprietary trading infrastructure
  • Iterate fast and often, pushing changes to production, collecting feedback and using it to refine your approach
  • BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent
  • 5+ years post-graduation professional C++ software development experience (proprietary trading industry preferred)
  • Ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable code
  • Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures
  • Experience in parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming
  • Interest in achieving maximum performance from available hardware and software
  • Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical business colleagues
  • Ability to travel to Flow Traders' offices around the world
  • Base salary of $185,000 - $250,000
  • Annual discretionary variable remuneration based on company, group and individual performance and contribution
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