Technology Team Lead - C++

Overview

Susquehanna is looking for a Technical Team Lead to join our APAC exchange Connectivity team. In this role you will develop and enhance low latency and high frequency exchange connectivity applications by designing, implementing, and delivering complex software systems that meet the business needs. You will manage a team of highly technical software engineers and will lead projects from start to finish; from gathering requirements and analysis, to development, testing and deployment to production.

 

The successful candidate should have a demonstrated track record of successfully delivering complex applications that meet demanding performance and scalability goals in a trading environment.

 

What we’re looking for

• A bachelor's degree (or higher) in a technical or related discipline
• Minimum of five years experience working as a technology team lead
• Minimum of three years experience as a team lead in the financial markets industry, driving multiple concurrent projects from analysis to production and managing teams of highly technical software development engineers.
• Experience working on exchange connectivity technology.
• A minimum of ten years experience designing and developing applications using object-oriented programming using C++ on Linux with knowledge of design, profiling, performance tuning, OO, generic programming, STL, boost, sockets, multi-threading, and IPC.
• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy and a thorough understanding of full life-cycle development and performance optimization/latency reduction methodologies.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and decision-making skills
• Knowledge of financial products, exchange connectivity, and market data

What’s in it for you

Real Impact: As an essential member of the team, your role involves supporting, innovating, and optimising systems processing and models using massive amounts of data, all while ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards 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 Trading, Quantitative Research, Infrastructure and Strategy Developer Teams to develop and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region.

 

Growth: 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

 

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About Susquehanna:

 

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.

 

Equal Opportunity Statement

 

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

 

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