Core Engineering Manager

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation  for discovering unique market opportunities.

Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization. 

Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance.

At Tower, every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do — combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.

At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.

The Core Engineering Markets team is responsible for providing Tower’s trading strategies access to a wide and continually growing range of financial markets globally, including but not limited to providing access to new markets, developing cutting edge technical capabilities, ensuring optimal performance, and providing expert market intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Designing and architecting a high-frequency trading platform for cryptocurrency markets, which includes collecting quotes and trades from and disseminating orders to exchanges around the world
• Managing and mentoring a global team of developers across multiple regions
• Working closely with traders, business management, and other stakeholders to prioritize projects and deliver business-critical solutions
• Optimizing this platform by using network and systems programming, as well as other advanced techniques to minimize latency
• Developing systems that provide easy access to historical market data and trading simulations

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science or a related field
• At least 10+ years of experience with C++ development, preferably in a trading environment
• Proven experience leading and mentoring software development teams, including distributed or global teams