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About the Role
Millennium is a global, diversified alternative investment firm seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer to design, develop, and maintain low-latency C++ execution algorithms, order management systems, and related infrastructure. This role involves partnering with central trading teams to optimize execution performance, reduce system latency, and build tools for market data analysis and simulations.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain low-latency C++ execution algorithms, order management systems, strategy containers, connectivity, and messaging systems.
- Partner directly with central trading teams to optimize execution performance across businesses and regions.
- Reduce system latency using advanced network and systems programming techniques and other performance-focused methodologies.
- Build systems, interfaces, and tools for historical market data analysis and trading simulations to improve research productivity and system testability.
- Develop and maintain automated tests, performance benchmarking frameworks, and internal engineering tools.
- Collaborate with trading teams in a fast-paced environment to gather requirements and deliver effective, timely solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in a front-office financial services environment.
- Strong expertise in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming in C++.
- Proficiency with C++17 and C++20, multithreading, and asynchronous programming environments.
- Strong understanding of low-latency and real-time system design and implementation.
- Deep knowledge of Linux system internals and networking.
- Strong financial markets experience across multiple asset classes, with a focus on real-time, low-latency trading systems for equities and futures.
- Proficiency using LLM-based tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.
- Working familiarity with Python for quantitative research, data-oriented processing, and execution algorithm performance analysis.
Skills
- C++
- C++17
- C++20
- Multithreading
- Asynchronous programming
- Low-latency system design
- Real-time system design
- Linux system internals
- Networking
- Financial markets
- Equities trading systems
- Futures trading systems
- LLM-based tools
- Python
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 5+ years in a front-office financial services environment
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
About the Company
- Millennium is a global, diversified alternative investment firm, founded in 1989.
- Millennium’s mission is to deliver results for our investors.
- Our people are empowered with both independence and support: the autonomy to pursue ideas with conviction and the backing of a global network committed to collaboration, disciplined risk management and continuous learning.
- Millennium’s Information Technology team supports the firm’s active, multi-manager business model through flexible, scalable technology and advanced proprietary systems.
- The team develops next-generation analytical and trading capabilities, including high-performance infrastructure that supports central trading teams and enables execution across businesses and regions.