C++ High Frequency Trading Developer


Company:: Archer I.T., LLC
Location:: New York City, NY
Job Type:: Full Time
Category:: Sales & Trading


Posted:: 1/31/2013

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Job Description

Responsibilities:

As a Trading Automation Developer, you will expand our trading capabilities on markets around the world. Your responsibilities may include:

•Augmenting, improving, redesigning, and/or re-implementing the internal scripting tools that support our global quantitative trading systems

•Working closely with quantitative traders in New York, Gurgaon, and London to develop analytics, identify trading issues, analyze data sets, and troubleshoot trading issues

•Monitoring, supporting, and de-bugging the complex Perl/Linux applications that support trading operations

•Creating optimal, highly speed-sensitive, and scalable code that will process large amounts of data

•Writing tools to analyze data for patterns

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have at least three years of professional programming experience and expertise in scripting languages, such as Perl, Python, shell scripting, awk, sed, and MySql. Additional requirements include:

•Bachelor's and/or master's degree in computer science or a related field from a top school

•Strong working knowledge of Linux

•Experience working with C and/or C++

•The capacity to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment

•Demonstrated initiative and ability to take ownership of projects

•Strong communication skills and reasoning abilities

Financial experience is not required.

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