Senior Software Engineer

The role

The software development team designs and builds low-latency systems for trading a diverse set of instruments. You will design and implement network connectivity, market data, and execution libraries for an automated trading software platform.

What you will do

• Design and implement network connectivity, market data, and execution libraries for our automated trading software platform
• Work closely with strategy teams to understand how they consume the software
• Leverage libraries to facilitate backtesting and post-trade analysis of trading strategies
• Tune and refine existing components to improve performance, flexibility, and stability

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field, plus five years of experience in software engineering, or a Master’s degree in a quantitative or technical field, plus three years of experience
• 2-3 years of previous experience with implementing low-latency connectivity at any major exchange in C++
• Strong knowledge of engineering software systems for low latency
• Excellent technical and non-technical communication skills
• Passion for the trading industry and interest in interfacing with multi-disciplinary trading teams
• Proficiency in C++, multithreading, IPC, automated testing and benchmarking, lock-free data structures, Linux, Solarflare network stack

Nice to have

• Experience with Python and/or Bash scripting
• SQL
• Gitlab CI/CD

Benefits

• Generous profit sharing programs
• World-class benefits for full-time employees and their families

About the company

TransMarket Group (TMG) is a privately held global markets proprietary trading firm in Chicago. Founded in 1980 as Aardvark Financial, the firm uses next-generation technology to capture opportunities and manage risk in financial markets.