C++ Developer - Fixed Income

Hudson River Trading’s coders work on small, highly productive, and efficient teams that design, improve, and maintain the technology that powers our worldwide trading — at HRT, the code you write is our business. You’ll have an opportunity to work alongside developers across the firm who write trading algorithms, monitor trading, build and maintain a world-class research environment, and more!

In this role, you’ll build, improve, and maintain the trading infrastructure that enables our global fixed income and currency trading efforts. You’ll work closely with quantitative trading teams to combine coding (C++, Python) with product knowledge to support fixed income trading.

Profile

• You’re one of the top devs in your current organization, as measured by productivity, technical capability, and helpfulness to other devs
• You are capable of working independently as well as part of a team
• You can analyze and fix problems quickly
• You can look at code, figure out how it works, and identify ways to make it better
• You can describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), and anywhere in between
• You work well alongside people who challenge you and make you better at what you do​
• In your spare time you: code, tinker, read, explore, break things, and have an insatiable curiosity for all things computer related... you'll find like-minded people here.

Qualifications

• Experience building technology to support fixed income trading preferred
• 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
• Python experience a plus
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication