CareerPlan

Lead Software Developer – Options Market Making

New YorkFull-time2026-10-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, build, and optimize a high-performance, event-driven options quoting engine for real-time U.S. equity options markets.

Role type

Senior IC low-latency software engineer (options market making)

Builds

Real-time options quote management systems

Domain

Financial technology / Options market making

Required skills

C++ (lock-free, low-contention), Linux performance tuning, CPU architecture, memory hierarchy, concurrency, networking, high-throughput multithreaded systems, event-driven architecture, quote lifecycle management, market microstructure knowledge, exchange matching engine/gateway behavior, latency optimization, NUMA awareness, kernel/network-stack optimization, high-performance IPC

Preferred skills

Knowledge of U.S. equity option exchanges inner workings