Quant jobs / Susquehanna International Group (SIG)

Senior Quantitative Developer – C++, Options Market Taking

A performance-critical C++ role on the options market-taking development team, building the algorithms and low-latency systems behind electronic options strategies. It includes hybrid software and FPGA work.

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.

Build high-performance trading algorithms for electronic options
Work with researchers and traders on execution logic and signal integration
Run experiments to test order placement and execution hypotheses
Mine very large tick-data stores for market dynamics and new signals
Contribute to hybrid designs that pair software with FPGA acceleration

What they ask for

Required

4+ years of C++ with deep systems-level performance knowledge
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, physics or similar
Working with traders and researchers on fast iteration
Understanding of high-throughput systems

Preferred

Performance-critical systems tied to hardware such as FPGAs
Python and pandas

Education: Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, computer or electrical engineering, physics or a related field
Experience: 4+ years of C++ programming; industry finance experience not required
Languages and tools: C++
Python
Markets: options

How to prepare

Write a limit-order-book simulator in C++ and measure its throughput
Study market microstructure: queue position, adverse selection, order placement
Learn the basics of FPGA-based trading and where it fits
Practise cache-aware, allocation-free C++ and benchmark it

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