IT Development Team Leader- Trading Strategies

Summary

Join Auros, a leading high-frequency trading firm in the global cryptocurrency market, and lead a team of senior developers in building and maintaining high-performance trading systems. Your responsibilities will include mentoring developers, prioritizing tasks, developing trading strategies, improving automated monitoring systems, collaborating with various teams, and monitoring trading performance. You will work with both existing and new codebases, ensuring systems perform optimally from technical, risk, and profit perspectives. You will also identify opportunities to improve Auros's technical systems and architecture. This role requires significant experience in high-performance trading, team management, and C++ development. Auros offers a remote-friendly work environment, competitive compensation, and crypto upside.

Requirements

• Experience developing high-performance trading strategies and especially market-making in traditional or cryptocurrency markets
• Proven track record managing high-performing engineering teams
• Ability to bridge strategy and execution - you know when to dive deep and when to delegate
• 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
• You are reliable, take pride in delivering robust software, and are willing to be on call to support the systems you develop
• You're a calm clear communicator with an ability to galvanise the team around a common purpose

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of senior developers working on high-performance trading systems
• Keep the team focused and unblocked -whether through smart prioritisation or tactical firefighting
• Transform trading opportunities into profits. That is, improve and invent trading and market-making strategies while minding risk and any market-making obligations. You will oversee the entire process, including problem identification, analysing data, writing software, and providing ongoing support
• Improve and develop systems for automated monitoring of 24/7/365 trading
• Work with both existing codebases and new ones
• Collaborate closely with others. The business, development, and trading teams regularly work in concert with each other
• Monitor trading, especially of new algorithms, and ensure that our systems are performing as desired from a technical, risk, and profit perspective
• Use your experience working directly with trading teams to identify and surface opportunities to improve Auros’s technical systems and architecture
• 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 in configuring and monitoring Linux machines
• Experience with inter-process messaging via shared memory
• Experience with cloud computing infrastructure such as AWS

Benefits

• We're remote-friendly, async-forward, and radically transparent
• Competitive comp, crypto upside, and perks designed for humans