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Join the Risk Technology team to design, build, and maintain a high-performance trading risk platform responsible for trade capture, position management, P/L computation, inventory management and internal order routing. The role focuses on developing performant, resilient systems that process high volumes of trading data in live and historical scenarios and contributing to a new service-oriented architecture. Ideal candidates have strong C++ Linux development experience, solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms, and enjoy working collaboratively in a global engineering environment.
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Position Overview:
Risk Technology is a global team that designs, builds and maintains Squarepoint’s trading risk platform, which is responsible for trade capture, position management, profit/loss computation, inventory/locate management and internal order routing. These critical systems need to be performant, resilient, and capable of timely processing of high volumes of trading data in both live and historical scenarios, requiring solutions to process, propagate and store rapidly changing datasets efficiently. The Risk platform is undergoing significant investment to build a new service orientated architecture. We’re looking for talented engineers with a passion for software development who enjoy working in a dynamic, global and collaborative environment, with a strong focus on engineering excellence.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
- 4+ years’ C++ Linux based development experience.
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
- Team player with excellent communication skills.
Nice to have:
- Experience with scalable large-scale / distributed systems / service-oriented architecture
- Experience optimizing code for high performance applications
- Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, AMPS, QPID)
- Experience with Python, bash and/or Q/KDB





