Software Developer - Risk Technology
at Squarepoint Capital
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**Job Summary:** Software Developer - Risk Technology: Drive Squarepoint's global trading risk platform, ensuring high speed, resilience, and efficient data processing. Key responsibilities encompass trade capture, position management, P&L computation, and internal order routing. Essential skills include 4+ years of C++ Linux development, proficiency in data structures and algorithms, plus strong communication. Bonus points for experience in scalable systems, performance optimization, messaging systems, and Python/bash scripting. Collaborate in a dynamic, global team focused on engineering excellence.
Position Overview:
Risk Technology is a global team that designs, builds and maintains Squarepoint’s trading risk platform, which is responsible for trade capture, position management, profit/loss computation, inventory/locate management and internal order routing. These critical systems need to be performant, resilient, and capable of timely processing of high volumes of trading data in both live and historical scenarios, requiring solutions to process, propagate and store rapidly changing datasets efficiently. The Risk platform is undergoing significant investment to build a new service orientated architecture. We’re looking for talented engineers with a passion for software development who enjoy working in a dynamic, global and collaborative environment, with a strong focus on engineering excellence.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
- 4+ years’ C++ Linux based development experience.
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
- Team player with excellent communication skills.
Nice to have:
- Experience with scalable large-scale / distributed systems / service-oriented architecture
- Experience optimizing code for high performance applications
- Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, AMPS, QPID)
- Experience with Python, bash and/or Q/KDB
