Trading Systems Engineer - Quantitative Execution - J13214
Core
Build and maintain the electronic trading platform for systematic equities and futures strategies, bridging quantitative research prototypes with live market execution.
Role type
Senior IC trading systems engineer (quantitative execution)
Builds
High-performance, low-latency execution infrastructure for equity and futures markets
Domain
Quantitative finance / Algorithmic trading
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
C++, Python, Linux systems programming, real-time incident triage, CI/CD pipeline design, high-availability distributed systems architecture
Preferred skills
Competitive programming experience (ACM/ICPC), experience with electronic market makers (e.g., Virtu), Go, Rust, Java, C#
Technologies
Linux, C++, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C#, Git, CI/CD, containerized workflows
Responsibilities
Collaborate with quantitative researchers to deploy statistical models into live execution; maintain technical ownership of live trading platform reliability; handle real-time incident triage and emergency troubleshooting; tune and optimize execution infrastructure (kernel, storage, networking, hardware); build internal developer tools and automated health checks
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC