Job Description
Join our award-winning fintech team as a Senior Equity Options Software Engineer and revolutionize how financial markets operate. We're building next-generation trading platforms for institutional clients, leveraging cutting-edge technology to process complex derivatives with microsecond precision. This remote role offers the flexibility to work from anywhere while impacting multi-billion dollar trading operations.
Our engineers collaborate with quantitative analysts and traders to design low-latency systems handling 50,000+ transactions per second. You'll architect solutions for options pricing models, risk management algorithms, and market data processing pipelines that directly influence global financial markets.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-performance options pricing engines in C++/Python
- Develop low-latency trading systems handling equity derivatives execution
- Collaborate with quants to calibrate volatility models and Greeks calculations
- Optimize data pipelines processing real-time market feeds (ITCH/ITCHv4.1)
- Build risk management frameworks for complex options portfolios
- Lead technical design for options exchange connectivity (CBOE, NYSE)
- Mentor junior engineers on financial systems best practices
Qualifications
- 5+ years in high-frequency trading systems or derivatives technology
- Expertise in options pricing models (Black-Scholes, Binomial, Monte Carlo)
- Proficiency in low-latency C++ and Python (numpy/pandas)
- Experience with FIX protocol and exchange connectivity
- Strong understanding of options Greeks and risk metrics
- Knowledge of Linux kernel tuning and network optimization
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent