Software Developer (C++)

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Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

Role Overview:

At Squarepoint we use C++ to build the majority of our low latency and high performance systems, which are directly responsible for executing the critical trading path. Your work in this domain will have a direct impact on our trading success: powering critical trading operations, serving low latency market data or providing crucial market connectivity access to our daily trading operations. You could be driving the design and implementation of trading frameworks, centralised services processing massive volumes of data, or other high-volume distributed applications at Squarepoint.

Whichever project you work on, you will be pushing the boundaries of high performance software, and growing your skills in a highly collegiate work environment.

Required Qualifications:  

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other degree with a heavy emphasis on software development,
• Up to 4 years experience in a relevant role such as software or quant development, or similar
• Experience with C++, git, and Linux
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Eagerness to continuously learn new technologies and develop with us
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment

Nice to Have:

• Degree with emphasis on low-level systems programming, high performance computing, or similar
• Experience with any one of: Rust, KDB+/q, Python
• Experience working in an investment or financial business is useful