C++ Software Developer - Front Office

About Us: Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview:

We are looking for an experienced software developer to join our front office team responsible for development and daily operations of trading systems that provide services to traders.

Job Responsibilities:

Lead in the design, implementation, and deployment of DV’s core trading platform C++ 17

Bring deep technical knowledge such as parallel programming, trading systems, networking, or performance analysis

Work on cross-functional teams across trading, quant, and development to troubleshoot and solve complex problems

Work directly with trading desks on new feature requests

Requirements:

3+ years of experience building performant, scalable applications in C++

Experience working on Linux

Solid understanding of multi-threaded/multi-core programming paradigms

Object-oriented design and programming experience

Highly collaborative in nature, with excellent written and verbal communication skills

Familiarity with options trading and trading systems is a plus.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field from an accredited institution