Software Engineer
📄 Job Description
About Tower Research Capital
Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998 with a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities. Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization.
About the Role
Engineers at Tower thrive while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world-class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration, and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
- Augmenting, improving, redesigning, and/or re-implementing Cactus’s low-latency/high-throughput production trading environment.
- Building risk-management and performance-tracking tools.
- Developing applications that manage various aspects of post trade life cycle – including state-of-the-art reconciliation workflows, etc.
- Design and implement scalable software solutions that support trading, market analysis, and operational workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
Requirements
- A strong background in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming, preferably in C++.
- Brilliant problem-solving abilities.
- A passion for new technologies and ideas.
- The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills.
- A working knowledge of Linux.
- Knowledge of Python and shell scripts (a plus).
- Financial experience is not required.
