C++ Developer | Trading Strategies | Experienced Hire

Susquehanna is seeking a Software Developer to join a team responsible for designing and developing low-latency trading systems for our Index Desk. As a developer on this team, you will work closely with traders and top technologists to enhance our trading capabilities by providing innovative, scalable and stable systems.We are looking for a strong C++ Developer with experience in performance and optimization.

In This Role You Will

• Have a direct impact on a successful desk working directly with traders
• Propose new ideas or gather requirements for additional functionality, both of which are brought into production quickly through our short development cycles.
• Have the opportunity to propose and investigate new technologies to help us stay ahead.

Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Strategy Developers and Quantitative Researchers to translate complex trading problems into scalable and highly performant hardware solutions.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline or its foreign equivalent
• 5+ years of progressive experience developing software applications or HFT infrastructure.
• Experience with object oriented design and software development in a high-performance / high throughput environment using C++ (preferably in a Linux environment) is required
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy and a thorough understanding of full life-cycle development and performance optimization / latency reduction methodologies.
• Ability to work closely with other software developers, traders, quants, and infrastructure teams

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

What We Do

We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.