Senior Software Engineer

Goliath Partners is working with one of the top players in the options market ($60BIL AUM) and is seeking a low latency developer (with expertise in C++ programing) to join their Miami based team - with the mission of designing, developing, and implementing their various in house latency critical trading systems.

Our ideal engineer will be aiming to secure a top position shaping the future of quantitative trading, along side some of the best strategists & engineers in the field, who are actively solving many of the most complex programing issues in the world.

Responsibilities

• Developing tick back-testing for exchange sims & research platforms
• Develop trading simulations that increase research productivity
• Designing HFT platforms: derived from worldwide trade data
• Implementing & optimizing HFT platforms to minimize latency
• Collaborating with other hardware dev's to build out ULL systems
• Optimizing parallel computations with large quantities of shared data
• Assisting development of feed handlers on hardware (ex: Mellanox, Solarflare, compilers etc.)

Qualifications

• BS / MS / PhD - Computer Science or other STEM related field
• EXP with C++ (17 & 20), OOP, algorithmic design & data structures
• EXP working with "Options Pricing Models" in an HFT setting
• Previously worked on venue protocols for Order Entry / Market Data
• Firm grasp of real-time systems design using LL / ULL development
• Expertise with CPU architecture & capabilities
• Expertise with Linux
• Bonus: meta & template programming
• Bonus: knowledge of Python, Java, Shell Scripts and Perl

Compensation

• Includes base + benefits package with a discretionary bonus. Base is estimated to remain in the ballpark of $180-250k. Total comp peaking near $400k for top talent.