Quantitative Developer, Low-Latency Futures

A leading global trading firm is hiring a Quantitative Developer into a low-latency team trading futures at a high-frequency trading firm, based in New York. The seat sits at the exact junction of quantitative research and production engineering: turning hypotheses about market microstructure into measurable trading outcomes, and building the systems that make that loop fast. It reports into senior research-engineering leadership.

What you'll do:

• Partner with quantitative researchers to design, test and deploy high-frequency futures strategies, owning the path from hypothesis to production.
• Investigate market microstructure at the finest grain: how orders arrive, queue and move prices, and where measurable edge actually lives.
• Translate mathematical models into highly optimised, production-grade C , and profile relentlessly - performance wins here are visible in results, fast.
• Build the research infrastructure around the strategies: simulation, data pipelines and tooling that let ideas be tested at scale.
• Work across modern hardware - CPU, GPU and TPU - choosing the right silicon for each problem.

Your profile:

• Expert-level C with a track record of building high-performance software, and deep systems understanding: memory, caches, concurrency, profiling.
• Strong mathematical and statistical foundations - equally comfortable reasoning about a model and reading a flame graph.
• Python for research tooling.
• Industry experience at a trading firm, exchange or similarly latency-obsessed environment is strongly preferred; exceptional systems engineers with a demonstrated interest in markets (internships, credible side projects) will be considered.
• Genuine curiosity about markets is non-negotiable - the interview process tests it early, and candidates who see finance as interchangeable with any other C job do not progress.

Why this role:

Most engineering roles in trading are adjacent to the research; this one is inside it. You own outcomes, not tickets: the hypothesis, the implementation and the measurement all pass through your hands, on a team small enough that your work is visible to the very top of the engineering organisation.

Pre-Application:

• This is a full-time, on-site role based in New York; fully remote candidates will not be considered.
• Applicants must have the right to live and work in the US, or be eligible for sponsorship (confirmed case by case).
• Please ensure you meet the required experience prior to applying.
• Allow 1-5 working days for a response to any job enquiry.

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