Software Engineer

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.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing a high-frequency trading platform, including collecting quotes and trades from and disseminating orders to exchanges around the world
• Optimizing our platform using network and systems programming, as well as other advanced techniques to minimize latency
• Developing systems that provide optimal access to live market data, historical market data, and trading simulations
• Creating tools to analyze data for patterns
• Building risk-management and performance-tracking tools

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Prior internship experience with C++ development, preferably in a trading environment 
• A strong background in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming in C++
• Knowledge of high-throughput systems
• Brilliant problem-solving abilities
• The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Good understanding of Linux operating system and Networking (TCP/IP and UDP) is a plus