Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve real-time quoting and decisioning components with attention to latency, throughput, and correctness.
• Implement and maintain risk controls and guardrails, including exposure checks, limits, throttling, filters, and kill-switch patterns.
• Implement decision logging that supports debugging, replay, and strategy improvement using quote and fill outcomes.
• Partner with quantitative analysts and stakeholders to define and monitor trading and performance metrics.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain software across the full delivery lifecycle.
• Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, code reviews, team planning, and operational reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers, train teammates, and help recruit and interview candidates.
• Resolve complex problems, improve software maintainability, and drive operational excellence, including on-call support.

Requirements

• Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of industry experience in engineering, machine learning, data science, finance engineering, statistics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of software-development experience.
• Proficiency building services with a modern object-oriented programming language; C# experience is beneficial.
• Understanding of performance, hardware, and lower-level memory management; C, C++, or Rust experience is beneficial.
• Fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with GitOps patterns, CI/CD pipeline tooling, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, containers, orchestration, unit testing, and software-quality practices.
• Knowledge of AWS API Gateway, workflow orchestration, Lambda, and serverless applications.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform and Helm, is beneficial.
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka is beneficial.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence is beneficial.
• Ability to translate requirements into designs, develop applications, document technical work clearly, and provide on-call support.
• Trading-systems experience with event-driven or real-time systems, observability, safe rollout patterns, exposure and hedging concepts, backtesting, simulation, replay tooling, or strategy evaluation is beneficial.

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance, including plans with some $0-per-paycheck options.
• Fertility and family-planning programs, mental-health support, and fitness benefits.
• Paid time off, sick leave, and 14 paid company holidays.
• 401(k) matching of up to 5%.
• Commuter benefits, pet insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and other employee benefits.
• Potential annual bonus, long-term incentive, cash bonus, and stock-program participation based on eligibility and performance.
• Hybrid work arrangement is indicated by the posting.