Software Developer - Risk Technology
at Squarepoint Capital
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Risk Technology designs, builds and maintains Squarepoint’s trading risk platform, handling trade capture, position management, P&L computation, and internal order routing. This role focuses on delivering high-performance, resilient software in a service-oriented architecture to process large volumes of trading data in live and historical scenarios. You will work in a global, collaborative environment with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence. Required qualifications include 4+ years of C++ Linux development, plus knowledge of data structures and algorithms; nice-to-have items include experience with distributed systems, messaging, and Python/bash/Q/KDB.
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

