We're looking for a junior software engineer (on parity with L3 to L4 at a large tech firm) to join our core engineering team. Our core team is responsible for all things C/C++ and Rust, and the most performance-sensitive parts of our codebase. You'll be working with nearly 20 PB of data, with thousands of bare metal CPU cores at your disposal.
We offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance server applications in C/C++ and Rust.
Write message parsers and feed handlers for direct market data feeds from trading venues.
Optimize existing codebase for high throughput (millions of messages per second, up to 40+ gigabits) and low latency (measured in nanoseconds).
Implement tools and libraries for petabyte-scale data processing and analysis.
Collaborate with the systems team to implement best practices for build, deployment, CI/CD.
Implement monitoring and improve application uptime.
Ensure smooth feature rollouts and updates.
Preferred background
Prior internship experience or 1 to 3 years of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup.
Strong proficiency in C/C++ or Rust.
Knowledge of systems programming, algorithms, data structures, multithreading, networked I/O, serialization, CPU architecture, kernel, and compilers.
Experience working with multiprocess environments.
Comfortable with lldb/gdb.
Good communication skills and work ethic for a remote workplace.
An interest in low-level optimization and performance engineering.
An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading.
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