Job Description
Join the Elite Front Office Trading Team
We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer specializing in Equity Options and quantitative finance to join our urgent hiring initiative. If you are passionate about high-frequency trading, volatility modeling, and building robust financial systems, this is your opportunity to shape the future of our trading platform.
Based in El Paso, we offer a competitive salary, equity participation, and a cutting-edge environment where your code directly impacts millions in derivatives trading.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance pricing engines for equity options and exotic derivatives.
- Optimize latency-critical trading systems to ensure real-time market execution and risk management.
- Collaborate with quantitative analysts to translate complex financial models into efficient, scalable code.
- Implement and secure low-latency data pipelines for market data ingestion and order routing.
- Conduct rigorous code reviews and unit testing to ensure system reliability and compliance.
- Debug and resolve complex issues in live trading environments with minimal downtime.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Financial Engineering (PhD preferred).
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in financial services or quantitative trading.
- Strong proficiency in Python and C++.
- Deep understanding of options pricing models (Black-Scholes, Binomial, Monte Carlo simulations).
- Experience with distributed systems, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and database optimization (SQL, NoSQL).
- Familiarity with Linux environments and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).