Software Engineer – C++

Overview

In this C++ Engineer role at Hudson River Trading, you will build and optimize high-performance, fault-tolerant systems that power live trading across global markets. You will work with researchers, traders, and hardware specialists to reduce latency and increase throughput in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You’ll tackle complex problems in market data handling, order entry, and hardware interfaces, contributing to a world-class trading stack. Join a bottom-up culture that rewards impact and technical excellence, shaping the future of automated trading.

Pay / Benefits

• base salary 200,000–300,000 USD per year
• discretionary performance-based bonuses
• competitive benefits package

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize infrastructure for market data, order entry and execution logic across multiple asset classes
• Design fault-tolerant, low-latency live trading systems, including data encoding over WAN and hardware failure recovery
• Profile and improve performance-critical code for throughput and latency in production
• Build and maintain infrastructure for products including client-facing wholesale and SDP platforms, distributed network filesystems, and scalable research workflows
• Write software interfacing with specialized hardware such as FPGAs and ASICs used in trading systems

Key requirements

• 1+ years of professional work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Advanced C++ experience required; daily use preferred
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication

• Independent problem-solving ability
• Mentorship and willingness to advise other developers
• Ability to articulate software designs at high and low levels
• Advanced C++ programming
• UNIX/Linux proficiency
• System/processor performance tuning

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