About the Role
As a Software Developer within our Trading Systems team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with traders and the firm’s top technologists. Ideally, you will have a background in trading systems and/or performance tuning and want the chance to compete against the best systems in the world.
Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance trading applications by designing, implementing, and delivering complex software systems that meet the business needs.
- Solve complex problems by providing innovative and scalable solutions with a focus on high frequency and low latency automated trading.
- Bring/gain a thorough understanding of the business domain (trading, strategies, market making, market data and low latency).
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree (or higher) in a technical or related discipline
- A minimum of 2 years experience (upto 5 years is ideal) designing and developing applications using modern C++ on Linux, as well as proficiency in Python
- Excellent attention to detail, accuracy and a thorough understanding of full life-cycle development and performance optimization/latency reduction methodologies.
- A demonstrated track record of successfully delivering complex applications that meet demanding performance and scalability goals.
- Experience in trading application development would be highly regarded.
- Knowledge of financial products would be highly regarded.
Skills
- modern C++
- Python
- full life-cycle development
- performance optimization
- latency reduction
Experience Level
- 2-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a technical or related discipline
Benefits
- Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits
About the Company
- Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation.
- Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment.
- To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies.
- By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.
- We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading.
- Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers.
- While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialised, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.
