C++ Senior Engineer - Options Market Making Execution

Our Options Market Making Execution team is looking for a Senior Engineer to build high-performance, elegant solutions to keep CTC's options trading infrastructure fast, efficient, and competitive. You'll partner with Engineers, Traders, and Quant Researchers to develop and fine-tune execution engines and trading strategies with the goal of reducing latency, maximizing performance and improving P&L. By simplifying system management and constantly improving our options trading engines, you'll ensure our trading infrastructure remains scalable, responsive, and cutting-edge.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and build high-performance, low-latency trading systems that power our Options Market Making business
• Work closely with traders, quants and technologists to drive ideas from inception to production in a timely and robust manner.
• Partner with other teams such as operations, option pricing, exchange connectivity to ensure your solutions seamlessly integrate into our firmwide trading infrastructure.
• Ensure operational safety and uphold the highest standards of software engineering by thoroughly testing code, following a coherent and maintainable design and architecture, and adhering to best practices-prioritizing carefully planned, well-structured solutions over ad hoc implementations.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in a production environment using modern C++
• Deep knowledge of low level systems programming, optimization, and hardware/software co-design
• Strong fundamentals in computer architecture and networking protocols
• Experience writing multithreaded and distributed systems with an affinity for delivering clean, performant code
• Ability to quickly triage issues and drive the resolution effort through completion
• Experience working at a high frequency trading firm is preferred