Quant Developer | Trading Strategies | Experienced Hire

Overview

Susquehanna is hiring a software developer for our Strategy Development team. This is a computationally intensive role that will allow you to utilize both your data analysis and technology skills. You’ll enhance, refine, and evolve strategies by searching for the optimal parameterization. We’re looking for someone who has experience with performance-sensitive C# or Java knowledge, but familiarity with C++ is also a plus.

 

In this role, you will:

• Have the unique opportunity to become the expert on specific strategies and exchanges that you are responsible for in the equity and derivatives markets.
• Be on the front lines of the business, iterating with quants and traders to come up with new features and enhance existing strategies.
• Be involved in the full SDLC, from requirements gathering, to designing and implementing new strategies, through to troubleshooting and reconciling live trading versus actual and expected results. 

What you can expect from us:

 

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 plus 7 years of progressive experience developing software applications. Relevant technical experience may substitute for education
• Recent hands-on experience with performance-sensitive C# or Java is required; C++ experience a plus

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 doWe 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.

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected]. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will not be eligible for an agency fee.

 

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