About the position
Hudson River Trading’s coders work on small, highly productive, and efficient teams that design, improve, and maintain the technology that powers worldwide trading — at HRT, the code you write is our business. You’ll have an opportunity to work alongside a range of developers across the firm who write trading algorithms, monitor trading, build and maintain a world-class research environment, and more! We are looking for highly skilled programmers who love to code and solve complex problems, appreciate a culture of collaboration, and thrive in a performance-driven environment. You can always expect to be challenged by the ever-changing financial markets, and find yourself working on critical software in an extremely fast-paced, real-time environment. HRT's distributed system is on the Pareto frontier of latency and throughput, you’ll have limitless opportunity to continue to learn and develop deep knowledge of C++, OS internals, CPU architecture, and networking hardware and protocols.
Responsibilities
- Design, improve, and maintain technology that powers worldwide trading.
- Work alongside developers to write trading algorithms and monitor trading.
- Build and maintain a world-class research environment.
- Analyze and fix problems quickly.
- Describe software designs at various levels of abstraction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills.
- Advanced C++ experience is required, daily use preferred.
- Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication.
