Senior Quantitative Java Software Engineer

HCTech is a financial technology company with offices in New York, Chicago and London.

We design/build/operate mission critical systems that are used for financial markets transactions, and are building a team of experienced and motivated software engineers to develop the next generation trading platform.

We are looking for the following qualities:

• Team Oriented - We want people who are as committed to making the team better through sharing ideas as they are driven to improve their individual performance.
• Systematic Problem Solving - You must enjoy tackling new concepts quickly, combining knowledge from different domains, and take a data-driven approach to testing new ideas.
• Mental Flexibility - You’ll have to frequently adapt based on new data, results, and feedback on your ideas and your performance.
• Entrepreneurial Thinking - We value academic training and research but our work is not an academic exercise. We aggressively test ideas, drop projects with limited upside, and focus our efforts on the bottom line.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, coding, implementing core trading components
• Collaborating with quantitative traders to design and test trading models ● Building real-time trading applications

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in Java development
• Excellent communications skills
• Proficiency in UNIX system programming
• Proficiency with Git
• Proficiency with relational databases (MySQL, PostGreSQL)
• Familiarity with testing frameworks (Gtest, JUnit, etc)

Highly desired experience:

• Experience with low latency programming
• Experience with distributed systems, multithreading and JAVA I/O
• Technically comfortable using all aspect of Java
• Experience with database programming using JDBC/SQL
• Experience with application profiling and debugging
• Experience in financial markets (we can bring you up to speed)

Education Requirements:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Math, or 5 years of equivalent experience

HCTech provides excellent benefits and a casual, friendly work environment in a great neighborhood. This is a full-time job.

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