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You will work in close collaboration with the research, systems, and operations teams to architect, implement and analyze new automated electronic trading algorithms. You will play a key role in designing and constructing the Firm’s software infrastructure to support new and existing lines of business. In addition, you will expand the Firm’s proprietary research platform to improve performance and support new exchanges, products and functionality.\nQualifications:\nPreferred degree in any computing related area (e.g., computer science, computer engineering, etc.)\nIn lieu of this, extensive professional software development experience\nWell-versed in the fundamentals of software engineering\nGenuine interest in solving technical problems, along with a strong ability to implement solutions\nLow ego, able to work both in a collaborative team setting and autonomously\nCommitted to designing and implementing fully automated, scalable, and maintainable solutions with extensive testing\nSuperior ability to write in C++, or experience with other statically-typed imperative programming language\nComfortable operating at various different levels of abstraction, from individual machines to large scale distributed systems\nStrong knowledge of the details of computing all throughout the technical stack\nKnowledge of Linux a plus\nExperience in the trading industry preferred but not mandatory\nDay to Day:\nThis isn't an exhaustive list, but represents a selection of the types of tasks that software developers at Headlands Tech take on while developing and maintaining a large scale 24 hour automated trading system.\nBuild, maintain, and improve exchange connectivity\nLeverage existing infrastructure, extending functionality where necessary\nBuild a deep understanding of exchange behavior to integrate into our existing trading system\nMaintain and extend core research infrastructure\nDesign, implement, and maintain distributed storage systems with various different performance and reliability requirements\nAddress performance limitations within our own software, open source libraries and applications, Linux, etc.\nInvestigate new technologies to improve stability, scalability, and performance\nImplement new trading strategies in collaboration with research and operations teams\nExtend strategy framework to enable new behaviors and improve existing ones\nInvestigate signal issues for trading system\nReconcile differences between trading strategies performance in simulation versus production\nInvestigate production trading issues in collaboration with operations, systems, and research teams\nOptimize the performance of the live trading system\nMeasure latency and throughput through microbenchmarks, profiling, tracing, etc.\nOptimize existing code using lock free data structures, compiler intrinsics, etc.\nDevelop new algorithms to address performance limitations at a higher abstraction layer\nRearchitect components of the trading system to eliminate bottlenecks\nFundamental network programming\nImplement low level networking protocols\nInvestigate network captures to understand latency and behavior of both exchange and internal communication\nEnsure the continued stability and reliability of the trading system\nBuild monitoring systems for trading strategies and all other pieces of our infrastructure\nConduct code reviews of other developers, researchers and operations team members\nWe are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and to provide employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. 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