Software Engineer, Trading – Cumberland Systematic

Overview

As a Software Engineer at Cumberland Systematic, you will build and maintain the full stack enabling a global, high-availability trading operation. You’ll work with researchers and traders to deliver research, market data, and execution tooling in C++ and Python. You’ll apply your engineering depth to create robust, low-latency systems that support delta-one strategies and post-trade analysis. This role blends hands-on development with collaboration across quantitative teams to drive impactful results.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain software for research, trading, and post-trade analysis
• Develop market data handling, feature/signal computation, portfolio optimization, and execution management
• Work across C++ and Python; contribute to the full software stack
• Perform unit, functional, and integration testing
• Collaborate with researchers, traders and other software engineers
• Provide on-call support as needed

Key requirements

• 5+ years of professional C++ experience
• Built complex, mission-critical systems in modern C++ that are maintainable and refactorable
• Deep understanding of concurrency concepts and their application in C++ and Python
• Working knowledge of type safety and type systems
• Developed high availability distributed systems with tight latency constraints
• Understanding of computer networking and related tradeoffs
• Practical knowledge of fundamental statistics and numerical methods
• Experience writing software for the trading domain
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong internal motivation and continual desire to learn

• Strong verbal and written communication
• Self-motivated with continual learning
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work with cross-functional teams
• C++
• Python
• Concurrency

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