Senior Software Engineer, Exchange Connectivity

Location New York
Discipline: Research & Development
Job type: Vice President (VP)
Salary: £$200k-$230k base, 60%-100% ann bonus, equity options
Contact name: James Drysdale

Contact email: james@winston-fox.co.uk
Job ref: EXCJAVCRY1
Published: over 2 years ago
Startdate: ASAP

​Specialist Global Market Making firm is hiring for a “career-driven” Senior Software Engineer to help scale and expand their market-leading platform, and design, develop, and optimize low latency exchange and market connectivity, and execution systems. As a senior engineer, you will be a key team member with full product and design responsibility in addition to implementation.

You will become a core part of a small and rapidly growing engineering team in New York with responsibility for the design and development of high performance, low-latency trading systems for huge volumes of digital assets. We are looking for senior engineers with expertise design and implementing low-latency systems for exchange and market connectivity, and execution for the traditional asset classes. Engineers with a passion for excellent design, beautiful code, high-performance/latency, and enjoys solving incredibly complex technical problems.

If you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment where Technology and Code is the revenue generator, and building high performance, secure, and scalable applications, for connectivity and execution is your expertise then there is no better opportunity in the world right now.

We are looking for

  • 5+ years of high-performance software design and engineering experience.

  • Experience working on low-latency systems projects on either exchange/market connectivity, or execution.

  • Highly proficient in OO, system design, architecture, algorithms, data structure, latency, and the FIX Protocol

  • The technical stack is Java, but happy to consider C++ or other OO languages if you have the domain experience required and you are happy to learn/use Java.

On offer

  • Base salary: $200,000 - $230,000

  • Annual bonus range: 60%-100%

  • Equity Options - annual vesting

  • Flexible working - 2-3 days WFH

  • Benefits package (medical, pension etc)

  • 30 days holiday

  • and more...

Not available

  • US Visa sponsorship

  • 100% WFH/remote