Overview
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

How Headlands Technologies hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Headlands Technologies scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Headlands Technologies is a New York quantitative trading firm founded in 2015 that builds its own low-latency systems. Its engineers and researchers develop the pricing models and execution infrastructure used to make markets across asset classes. The company operates trading technology offices in several financial centres.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Headlands Technologies over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
77/100
Languages
C++
Python
Java
SystemVerilog
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Sign in to see how your skills match this stack Sign In
Full Headlands Technologies tech stack 8 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
7
2 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
1 days
faster than 97% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~2 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
50% ▲
Early Careers
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Amsterdam Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
3
Countries
4
Busiest office
Chicago
Loading the map
Headquarters Builds here Office with open vacancies No open vacancies right now Tap a pin for the office
New York United States
HQ
New York City
careers board
Chicago United States
Engineering / R&D
Amsterdam
5 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Hardware, Backend
seen since May 2026 careers board, job postings
Singapore Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Legal
seen since Jun 2026 careers board, job postings
Amsterdam Netherlands
Regional office
Amsterdam
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Regional office
London
careers board
Little Rock United States
Regional office
Little Rock
careers board

Jobs

≈ $45k – $110k per year (Estimated) • In office • Amsterdam
C++
Linux
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Apply
≈ $35k – $104k per year (Estimated) • In office • Chicago
Python
Java
C++
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Apply
≈ $51k – $102k per year (Estimated) • In office • Chicago
Python
Java
C++
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Apply
≈ $49k – $105k per year (Estimated) • In office • Chicago
Java
C++
Linux
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Apply
≈ $53k – $117k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Python
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
VHDL
GDPR
Apply
≈ $52k – $116k per year (Estimated) • In office • Chicago
C++
Linux
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Apply