Salary: up to £250k UK + bonus

Locations: London, New York, Miami, Sydney

Summary

Fantastic opportunity for a strong C++ software engineer to gain experience in options market-making at a globally successful firm. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to one of the world’s most powerful trading platforms.

You will partner with business leaders to understand priorities and create custom software that optimizes performance and efficiency across the firm. The work will be a mix of designing, testing & deploying elegant software, analyzing complex technical problems, and continuously improving performance, functionality and stability of the platform.

They strive to be the most successful investment team in the world, hiring the brightest minds from a range of backgrounds - technology, research, and finance - and providing the tools needed to collaborate. The successful candidate will be willing to become an expert in the options trading space and convert this expertise into next-generation software solutions, collapsing data cardinality where possible.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ professional experience, including distributed systems and multithreaded application design & development
• Solid C++ experience
• Keen proponent of solving open-ended problems with analytical methods
• Ability to work independently and prioritize high-impact projects
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field) from a top-tier university

NB: Please don’t apply if you’re a fresh graduate.

Rewards and Incentives

• Hugely collaborative environment between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the smartest minds and the latest technologies on complex technical problems

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you would like to know more, please get in touch.

Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946