Job Description
Join Apex Derivatives Technologies, a leading force in the fintech sector, as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Equity Options. We are revolutionizing how traders analyze and execute options strategies. Based in the heart of New York City, you will be part of a high-performance team building scalable, low-latency trading systems.
We are looking for a visionary engineer who is passionate about financial markets and possesses the technical prowess to build robust software solutions. If you want to make a tangible impact on the future of equity options trading, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-performance pricing engines for complex equity options derivatives.
- Optimize low-latency trading algorithms and execution strategies for real-time market data.
- Collaborate closely with quantitative analysts and product managers to translate market models into production-ready code.
- Ensure system scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability under heavy transaction loads.
- Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews to maintain engineering excellence across the team.
- Integrate with external market data providers and exchanges using RESTful APIs and WebSocket protocols.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on high-frequency or low-latency systems.
- Deep understanding of financial markets, specifically equity options and derivatives pricing models.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C++, Python, and Java.
- Experience with distributed systems, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and relational/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, Redis).