C++ Software Engineer

Company: DV Trading LLC
Location: Chicago
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

About UsFounded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 350 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser. We invest in exceptional individuals and empower them to realize their goals and make a lasting positive impact on our organization. Engaging a diverse group of talented people from different cultural, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds helps provide us with a competitive advantage that drives our success. OverviewC++ Software Developers work with traders, researchers, and other developers to engineer low latency, high throughput trading systems. They create and improve the libraries and frameworks upon which our trading applications are based and develop new tools. In addition, developers also benchmark and tune critical software services to achieve optimum performance. Our developers interact directly with traders and strategists to capture business requirements and design innovative solutions. Job Responsibilities

• Build and improve a variety of proprietary trading tools to support the trading desks across the business
• Collaborate with other developers, tech leaders, traders, and researchers to outline the technical needs for each trading application
• Assist trading desks to get set up with new proprietary tools Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
  • Experience programming in C++ on a multithreaded systems in a Linux environment
  • Experience building latency sensitive systems
  • Strong understanding of all aspects of the software stack
  • Trading industry experience preferred
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • A passion for technology and innovation
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Confident team player motivated by a fast-paced environment

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