Senior Software Engineer - Development Tools

About the position

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience team. The Developer Experience team creates internal tools to ensure that our developers have everything they need to do their jobs well. While we are an automated trading firm, the code we write *is* our business. You'll be able to craft projects in the right way with your end-users sitting right next to you and collaborate with researchers and engineers to build high-impact products and help HRT tackle exciting new initiatives. Our people are our most valuable resource, and giving them the tools they need to do their best job is the biggest impact you can have. You’ll be amazed at what you accomplish!

Responsibilities

• Develop software that reaches every office and department at HRT while using the latest technologies and techniques in Python or C++ to drive improvements to our systems, new and old.
• Deploy and maintain applications while managing their complete lifecycle – from design phase production.
• Build Python or C++ tooling and environments for all developers at HRT.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Deep Python OR C++ experience is required, daily use of most recent standards preferred.
• Exceptional design, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication.
• Ability to describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), and anywhere in between.
• Previous experience with design and implementation of distributed systems is preferred.
• You can look at code, figure out how it works, and how to make it better.
• You are capable of working independently as well as part of a team.
• You really like to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do.

Benefits

• Discretionary performance-based bonuses
• Competitive benefits package