Senior Quantitative Trading Strategy Engineer

If you are looking to join a small, dynamic, growing firm in the financial technology sector, you have come to the right place. BlackEdge has built a strong foundation of success as an industry leading market maker in the treasury options space. Now we need talented people like you to build on that foundation by further improving and leveraging our existing success to expand into new markets.

Are you a competitive, results-driven engineer with a passion for systems engineering and cutting-edge technology? BlackEdge Capital is seeking a Low-Latency Trading Strategy Engineer to develop and optimize trading systems that drive our entry into new markets and opportunities. This is a unique chance to make a significant impact at a small, growing firm that values technical excellence, continuous improvement, and relentless innovation.

What You'll Do

• Create High-Performance Systems: Design, develop, and optimize ultra-low-latency trading systems in C and C++. These systems often integrate with custom hardware designed by our FPGA engineering team.
• Enhance Trading Strategies: Work closely with traders to design, implement, and refine strategies that respond to real-time market conditions.
• Innovate for Expansion: Build new tools and systems to enable the firm to expand into new markets and trading opportunities.
• Optimize Every Nanosecond: Tackle tough performance challenges, from network optimization to hardware acceleration, to reduce latencies, increase throughput, and capture opportunities
• Collaborate with Traders: Act as a bridge between trading and technology, ensuring seamless alignment of technical capabilities with trading goals.
• Deliver Impact: Drive projects that directly contribute to the firm's profitability and strategic growth.

What You'll Need

• Technical Expertise: Strong command of C or C++ systems programming in service of world-class performance.
• Low-Latency Know-How: Deep understanding of low-latency networking, kernel bypass, and performance profiling.
• Competitive Drive: A relentless desire to win, coupled with a passion for pushing the boundaries of what's possible in technology and trading.
• Collaborative Mindset: Excitement about working closely with traders to develop innovative solutions that directly impact trading performance.
• Problem-Solving Skills: The ability to tackle challenging technical problems with creativity and rigor.
• Interest in Financial Markets: While prior experience in trading or market-making is a plus, it's not required. Your drive to learn and adapt is what matters most.

A final note about our culture: we are pursuing excellence in trading. We want to be the best market makers in each product we trade and are relentless in our pursuit of incremental improvement. Every day is an opportunity to get a little bit better. Everyone here takes deep pride and ownership in what they do. The buck doesn't get passed along, it stops with you.