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Our volatility fitter and ultra-fast option pricers are the market standard, powering decisions at the world’s leading hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, market makers, and global banks.\nIn this role, you'll work directly with our CTO on the design of our large-scale, high-performance C++ quant library. You'll own performance-critical code, work on high-level library design questions, and be the on-staff C++ expert that our team trusts when something needs to be fast and correct.\nAs part of a small, hands-on team, you'll have real ownership from day one and your work will have an immediate and outsized impact. 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