Goliath Partners is working with one of the top players in the options market ($60BIL AUM) and is seeking a low latency developer (with expertise in C++ programing) to join their Miami based team - with the mission of designing, developing, and implementing their various in house latency critical trading systems.
Our ideal engineer will be aiming to secure a top position shaping the future of quantitative trading, along side some of the best strategists & engineers in the field, who are actively solving many of the most complex programing issues in the world.
Responsibilities:
- Developing tick back-testing for exchange sims & research platforms
- Develop trading simulations that increase research productivity
- Designing HFT platforms: derived from worldwide trade data
- Implementing & optimizing HFT platforms to minimize latency
- Collaborating with other hardware dev's to build out ULL systems
- Optimizing parallel computations with large quantities of shared data
- Assisting development of feed handlers on hardware (ex: Mellanox, Solarflare, compilers etc.)
Qualifications
- BS / MS / PhD - Computer Science or other STEM related field
- EXP with C++ (17 & 20), OOP, algorithmic design & data structures
- EXP working with "Options Pricing Models" in an HFT setting
- Previously worked on venue protocols for Order Entry / Market Data
- Firm grasp of real-time systems design using LL / ULL development
- Expertise with CPU architecture & capabilities
- Expertise with Linux
- Bonus: meta & template programming
- Bonus: knowledge of Python, Java, Shell Scripts and Perl
Compensation:
- Includes base + benefits package with a discretionary bonus. Base is estimated to remain in the ballpark of $180-250k. Total comp peaking near $400k for top talent.
