Financial Software Engineer, NYC

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Financial Software Engineer New York, NY

Major Hedge fund managing over $5 billion in assets using a global, multi-strategy approach to market-neutral investing. The firm employs over 150 individuals in four offices around the world.

Financial Software Engineer

Working within the firm’s growing Statistical Arbitrage group, the Financial Software Engineer will be a highly motivated and skilled object oriented C++ developer with experience in high performance distributed and multi-threaded development. The position will be based in the firm’s New York office, and the individual will report to a senior Financial Software Engineer in the Statistical Arbitrage team.

Responsibilities
The Financial Software Engineer will be primarily responsible for:
-developing real-time distributed services,
-integrating a newly developed real-time infrastructure into an existing code base, and
-leveraging the new real-time infrastructure to work on trading and order management systems.

Qualifications
-C++ experience
-Strong OOP skills
-Familiarity with design patterns
-Exceptional academic background, advanced degree a plus

Desirable Traits
Personal
-Strong quantitative and analytical skills
-High degree of intelligence
-Exceptional communication skills
-Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment

Functional
-Client-Server or Peer-To-Peer development experience
-Financial software development experience

Additional
-Trading systems or Real-Time analytics experience
-Experience with FIX
-Experience with Reuters (SFC, SSL)
-Familiarity with Tibco Rendezvous
-Windows development experience

Compensation will be competitive, consisting of a base salary and bonus component, and will be commensurate with experience.

Contact:
Craig Rofhok
Good-Agent,Inc.
212.268-6983
craig@good-agency.com