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Senior Software Engineer – Options Execution

A senior low-latency engineer building and improving execution systems for an Asian equity options business. You would sit between research and trading teams.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Improve low-latency order execution systems for Asian equity options
Interface with FPGA-based trading systems
Tune performance in C++ code and Linux networking
Work with quants on requirements and design
Lead projects and evaluate new tooling

What they ask for

Required

4+ years in trading or low-latency C++
Modern C++ (17+), Boost and STL
Multithreading and hardware/software interaction
Performance tuning of Linux and socket I/O
Options or derivatives experience
Distributed systems

Preferred

Python

Education: Not stated
Experience: 4+ years in trading or high-performance C++ development
Languages and tools: C++
Python
Markets: options, equities

How to prepare

Write a small order book or matching engine in modern C++ and profile it
Study lock-free structures, cache behaviour and NUMA basics
Learn Linux network tuning and kernel-bypass concepts
Learn how options market making and execution work

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with DRW and doesn’t handle applications.