Technology · FULL_TIME

Vice President of Trading Systems

Austin, TX

Compensation: Competitive base + bonus

About the role

What You'll Be Doing

As a Vice President of Trading Systems, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and supporting the critical systems that drive our quantitative investment platform.

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Design, develop, and maintain automated trading systems and supporting infrastructure.

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Build scalable services for order generation, execution, monitoring, and risk management.

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Improve system performance, resiliency, and operational reliability across the trading stack.

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Collaborate with quantitative researchers to deploy new strategies into production.

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Develop tools for real-time monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics.

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Optimize data pipelines and market data processing frameworks.

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Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term engineering solutions.

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Participate in architecture decisions and technology strategy initiatives.

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Contribute to software engineering best practices, testing frameworks, and code quality standards.

Who We're Looking For

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Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline.

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Strong software engineering experience in Python, C++, Java, or a comparable language.

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Experience building distributed systems and production-grade applications.

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Strong understanding of databases, networking, and systems architecture.

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Experience working in Linux environments.

Why This Role

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a leading firm at the forefront of quantitative investing. You will be part of a dynamic team where your technical expertise will directly influence our trading performance and strategies, allowing you to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment.