Quantitative Developer (Greater Chicago Area)
albert bowChicago (IL)
Quantitative Developer (Greater Chicago Area)
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albert bowChicago (IL)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Senior Quantitative Developer | Competitive Salary | Modern C++ & Low-Latency Concurrency | Chicago Albert Bow have partnered with a proprietary trading firm that builds and trades its own high-speed strategies in derivatives. Their edge is in the engineering: turning quantitative models into production systems fast enough to trade on. This is a firm where the code is the business.
The Role:
As a Senior Quantitative Developer, you'll take the models built by their traders and quantitative researchers and turn them into fast, robust, concurrent production systems that feed their trading algorithms. You'll sit side by side with the desk, own the architecture, and make the engineering calls where theory meets real hardware. This is a hands-on build role, hired first for your ability to write software that runs correctly and runs fast under load.
Key Responsibilities:
- Model implementation: Take pricing and risk models from traders and researchers and build fast, robust, concurrent, production-grade versions
- Concurrency design: Architect multicore systems with real shared-state concurrency and efficient synchronisation
- Performance optimisation: Squeeze throughput and latency out of numerical code through cache-aware data layout, memory reuse, and pragmatic speed versus precision trade-offs
- Full lifecycle ownership: Build, deploy, test and integrate your own systems
- What You BringDeep, demonstrable experience in multithreaded and concurrent C++ on Linux, with correct designs at high throughput and low latencyStrong command of synchronisation and interprocess communication primitives and when to use each
- A proven track record optimising numerical calculations for throughput and latencyStrong modern C++ and practical mastery of the build and deploy loop
- Experience implementing numerical methods and matrix decompositions
- Enough derivatives pricing knowledge to collaborate closely with the desk
- Someone pragmatic about resources who builds systems that run within real core and memory budgets
Location: Chicago, IL (in office)
Competitive salary + bonus
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