C++ Software Developer

• Build, maintain, and improve exchange connectivity

• Leverage existing infrastructure, extending functionality where necessary

• Build a deep understanding of exchange behavior to integrate into our existing trading system

• Maintain and extend core research infrastructure

• Design, implement, and maintain distributed storage systems with various different performance and reliability requirements

• Address performance limitations within our own software, open source libraries and applications, Linux, etc.

• Investigate new technologies to improve stability, scalability, and performance

• Implement new trading strategies in collaboration with research and operations teams

• Extend strategy framework to enable new behaviors and improve existing ones

• Investigate signal issues for trading system

• Reconcile differences between trading strategies performance in simulation versus production

• Investigate production trading issues in collaboration with operations, systems, and research teams

• Optimize the performance of the live trading system

• Measure latency and throughput through microbenchmarks, profiling, tracing, etc.

• Optimize existing code using lock free data structures, compiler intrinsics, etc.

• Develop new algorithms to address performance limitations at a higher abstraction layer

• Rearchitect components of the trading system to eliminate bottlenecks

• Fundamental network programming

• Implement low level networking protocols

• Investigate network captures to understand latency and behavior of both exchange and internal communication

• Ensure the continued stability and reliability of the trading system

• Build monitoring systems for trading strategies and all other pieces of our infrastructure

• Conduct code reviews of other developers, researchers and operations team members

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