Software Engineer - Quantitative Trading - Selby Jennings : Job Details

Selby Jennings is leading the search for software engineer to join a quant hedge fund based in NYC. The firm was founded more than twenty years ago and are well known for driving industry innovation within technology. They are looking for a software engineer to spearhead the development of greenfield trading infrastructure in low level C++ while partnering with the CTO and quant research team to take on requests.

You will be joining a team that consists of industry leaders who are alumni of top quant hedge funds and universities. This is a great opportunity for a junior-mid level engineer who are looking to take the next step and build critical systems from scratch at a highly regarded firm,

You will be able to work on:

• Market data procurement, low level feed development, management of large data sets and associated workflows
• Development and maintenance of portfolio management systems
• Optimization of core software infrastructure and environment

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Electrical and Computer Engineering or similar
• Experience with multi-threaded applications or distributed computing
• Understanding of Linux
• Fluency in C++ and ideally knowledge of Python