Senior Software Engineer (Python) – Leading HFT Trading Firm – Excellent Compensation + Benefits

About the role

Design, develop, and maintain mission-critical software for systematic research, trading, and post-trade analysis, including market data, execution, portfolio optimization, and distributed trading infrastructure. Partner with quantitative researchers and traders, and own projects through design, testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and production support. Requires at least five years of professional software engineering experience, strong Python skills, and experience building maintainable, mission-critical distributed systems with stringent latency requirements. Candidates should understand networking, distributed-system trade-offs, statistics, and numerical methods, and have trading-domain experience; experience with quantitative researchers is advantageous.