Platform Engineering Lead - HFT

Posted 5 Days Ago
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2 Locations
5-7 Years Experience
Financial Services
The Role
Lead the development of a greenfield high-frequency trading platform, ensuring high availability and low latency. Optimize performance and handle system architecture decisions while collaborating with research and trading teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are looking for a Platform Engineering Lead to lead the development of our HFT (high-frequency trading) algorithms across the full spectrum of exchange-traded financial products. Your work will impact the profitability of strategies across futures and equities and will constitute our competitive edge in the markets.


Location
Yerevan, AM or London, UK (Hybrid, with 3 days in-office requirement)


Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of a greenfield trading platform, offering the unique opportunity to shape the future of high-frequency trading infrastructure from the ground up.
  • Design, develop, and maintain HFT trading platform, ensuring high availability, low latency, and reliability in production across all asset classes.
  • Implement robust procedures and monitoring tools to guarantee platform stability and immediate issue resolution.
  • Continuously optimize the trading platform’s performance and scalability to support the evolving needs of the trading strategies and new market opportunities.
  • Oversee system architecture decisions and hardware-software integration to minimize latency and maximize throughput.
  • Lead quantitative analysis related to trading infrastructure performance, latency reduction, and system benchmarking.
  • Collaborate closely with research, trading, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of the trading platform with trading algorithms and market data feeds.
  • Manage the collection, maintenance, and analysis of trading and infrastructure data to support ongoing enhancements and troubleshooting efforts.


Basic Requirements

  • PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of prior experience in designing and maintaining high-performance trading platforms.
  • Proven experience managing a team of platform developers or leading high-performance engineering teams.
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across research, technology, and trading functions.
  • Expertise in C/C++ and familiarity with low-level programming and systems optimization.
  • Very high attention to detail, with a focus on reliability and precision in a high-stakes environment.

Benefits

  •  Health, visual and dental insurance
  •  Flexible sick time policy


Top Skills

C
C++
The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
79 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Teza Technologies is an innovative quantitative asset management firm founded in 2009 by high-frequency trading expert Misha Malyshev. Our multi-strategy, multi-PM platform is founded on microstructure data and signals. Quantitatively-informed digital assets strategies complement our core global futures and stat arb strategies. We pride ourselves on attracting and retaining top talent, developing strategies with a data-driven and science-backed methodology, and continuously innovating in pursuit of alpha for our clients. Our 70 employees are distributed across offices in Austin, New York, Chicago, and Shanghai.

phone: 312.768.1600
inquiries: [email protected]
candidates: [email protected]

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