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Hudson River Trading · 1 month ago

Experienced Software Engineer – Low Level (C++)

New York, NY, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$200K/yr - $300K/yr

1+ years exp

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a leader in algorithmic trading, focusing on building high-performance trading systems using C++. The role involves developing and optimizing low-latency systems and infrastructure that power trading across various asset classes, while collaborating closely with researchers and traders.

Financial Services

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize infrastructure for market data, order entry and execution logic, spanning tens of asset classes including options, equities, futures, crypto, and fixed income

Design fault-tolerant, low-latency systems for live trading, including encoding/prioritization of data over WAN links and recovery from hardware failures

Profile and improve performance-critical code for both throughput and latency in production environments

Build and maintain infrastructure that drives products including client-facing wholesale and SDP platforms, distributed network filesystems, and scalable research workflows

Write software that interfaces with specialized hardware such as FPGAs and ASICs used in trading systems

Qualification

Advanced C++UNIX operating systemsSystem performance knowledgeNetwork communicationDebugging skillsDesign skillsProblem solving skills

Required

1+ years of professional work experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills

Advanced C++ experience is required, daily use preferred

Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication

Benefits

Discretionary performance-based bonuses

Competitive benefits package

Company

Hudson River Trading

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Hudson River Trading opertes as a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm.

Founded in 2002

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com

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