Software Engineer - Options Trading Systems

Summit Securities Group•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for an elite Software Engineer to join our options trading team with a heavy focus on technology, advanced statistics, massive time-series data, and high-performance systems. You will work side-by-side with traders and researchers to implement strategies, optimize trading systems, and expand the team’s core platform. This role requires both engineering rigor and strong interpersonal judgment: you will own key projects end-to-end, develop a deep understanding of stakeholder needs, translate trading and research requirements into clean technical designs, and deliver robust systems for real-world trading problems. This is a high-responsibility role for someone who enjoys solving complex, volatility-centric problems in a fast-moving, startup-like environment.

Requirements

5+ years of elite software engineering experience in production systems.
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
Deep command of C++, object-oriented design, templates, concurrency, and multithreaded programming.
Strong understanding of modern computing systems and micro-architecture.
Experience with network programming APIs, including direct socket-level programming.
Ability to match the right data structures and algorithms to specific low-latency engineering problems.
Proven experience designing, improving, and maintaining clean, reusable frameworks.

Nice To Haves

Experience building automated trading systems, such as feed handlers, order management systems, market data systems, or strategy execution platforms.
A track record of intense performance tuning, profiling, and latency reduction.
Experience leading full product life-cycle development, from design through production deployment.
Familiarity with financial markets, options, volatility, or electronic trading.
Graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

Build Trading Systems: Design, implement, and improve systems that support options trading strategies, research workflows, and live trading infrastructure.
Own Core Projects: Take projects from ambiguous stakeholder need through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
Optimize Performance: Apply deep systems knowledge to improve latency, throughput, reliability, and scalability across performance-sensitive components.
Engineer Clean Frameworks: Build reusable, maintainable software frameworks that accelerate trader and researcher experimentation.
Work Close to the Desk: Collaborate directly with traders and researchers to understand strategy requirements, diagnose system behavior, and ship practical solutions.
Solve Low-Latency Problems: Select appropriate data structures, algorithms, and architectural patterns for highly specific, performance-critical use cases.