Executive Director | Electronic Market Making - Selby Jennings

Executive Director | Electronic Market Making

Tier-One Investment Bank – Systematic Market Making

New York City, NY

Compensation range: $600,000 + total & benefits

We are working with a high performing front office equity trading business who has seen incredible growth over the last few quarters and is seeking to expand their team in NYC. They are looking for a technology lead who can drive the expansion of their algorithmic trading platform, and provide direction from a technology and people management perspective. This is an opportunity to work at a tech-driven team and to be a part of a high-impact, large-scale project building critical systems that are utilized globally.

This role sits within the front office and the group head places a huge emphasis on a collaborative environment between his Traders, Quants, and Developers. Their technology stack is cutting edge and they prefer candidates to have a working knowledge of C++ with experience working on electronic trading systems (Equities experience preferred)

Qualifications:

Key skills for Executive Director

10+ years C++ programming experience

10+ years working in a Linux environment

Experience with low latency, electronic trading systems

Experience designing, implementing and maintaining software for HFT strategies

Systems design experience/experience with HPC and networking

Data Analysis knowledge and experience working with large data sets

Experience working alongside Quants / Traders for strategy development and optimization

Leadership experience is strongly preferred