Remote Developer

Summary

The job is for a high-frequency trading strategist in the cryptocurrency market, working remotely with a trader based in Asia. The role includes developing and supporting trading systems, improving monitoring systems, and collaborating with other teams.

Requirements

• Experience developing high-performance trading strategies for trading and especially market making in traditional or cryptocurrency markets
• Experience with low latency trading algorithms, market making and/or high frequency arbitrage, including an understanding of risks associated with managing a portfolio
• At least three years of experience in developing clean, maintainable, and performant code in C++ on Linux
• Experience with latency-optimised, distributed systems that are built to robustly handle many transactions
• Ability to find a balance between delivering clean, testable, reliable code and rapidly deploying new system features to take advantage of market opportunities
• Reliability, taking pride in delivering robust software, and willingness to be on call to support the systems developed

Responsibilities

• Develop and support systems that trade on cryptocurrency exchanges across the globe
• Transform trading opportunities into profits by improving and inventing trading strategies
• Improve and develop systems for automated monitoring of 24/7/365 trading
• Develop C++ and Python applications that leverage internally-developed, normalised interfaces for market data and order execution
• Collaborate closely with others, including the business, development, and trading teams
• Monitor trading, especially of new algorithms, and ensure that our systems are performing as desired from a technical, risk, and profit perspective
• Engage with the team during system design discussions, code reviews, trading idea brainstorms, and general banter

Preferred Qualifications

• A thorough understanding of network programming, namely UDP, TCP, TLS, and Websockets
• Experience profiling C++ code with any of Cachegrind, Valgrind or other profiling tools
• Experience configuring and monitoring Linux machines
• Experience with inter-process messaging via shared memory
• Experience with cloud computing infrastructure such as AWS