C++ Software Developer - New Grad

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><u>C++ Software Developer  - New Grad Job Description for Headlands Tech</u></strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Locations: Amsterdam; Chicago</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u>Scope:</u></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a software developer at Headlands Tech you will design, engineer and implement the Firm’s trading software in the C++ programming language.  You will work in close collaboration with the research, systems, and operations teams to architect, implement and analyze new automated electronic trading algorithms.  You will play a key role in designing and constructing the Firm’s software infrastructure to support new and existing lines of business.  In addition, you will expand the Firm’s proprietary research platform to improve performance and support new exchanges, products and functionality.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u>Qualifications:</u></span></p>

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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Preferred degree in any computing related area (e.g., computer science, computer engineering, etc.)</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In lieu of this, extensive professional software development experience</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Well-versed in the fundamentals of software engineering</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Genuine interest in solving technical problems, along with a strong ability to implement solutions</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Low ego, able to work both in a collaborative team setting and autonomously</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Committed to designing and implementing fully automated, scalable, and maintainable solutions with extensive testing</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Superior ability to write in C++, or experience with other statically-typed imperative programming language</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comfortable operating at various different levels of abstraction, from individual machines to large scale distributed systems</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong knowledge of the details of computing all throughout the technical stack</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge of Linux a plus</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience in the trading industry preferred but not mandatory</span></li>

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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u>Day to Day:</u></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This isn't an exhaustive list, but represents a selection of the types of tasks that software developers at Headlands Tech take on while developing and maintaining a large scale 24 hour automated trading system.</span></p>

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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build, maintain, and improve exchange connectivity</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Leverage existing infrastructure, extending functionality where necessary</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build a deep understanding of exchange behavior to integrate into our existing trading system</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maintain and extend core research infrastructure</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Design, implement, and maintain distributed storage systems with various different performance and reliability requirements</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Address performance limitations within our own software, open source libraries and applications, Linux, etc.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate new technologies to improve stability, scalability, and performance</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Implement new trading strategies in collaboration with research and operations teams</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Extend strategy framework to enable new behaviors and improve existing ones</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate signal issues for trading system</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reconcile differences between trading strategies performance in simulation versus production</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate production trading issues in collaboration with operations, systems, and research teams</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Optimize the performance of the live trading system</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Measure latency and throughput through microbenchmarks, profiling, tracing, etc.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Optimize existing code using lock free data structures, compiler intrinsics, etc.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop new algorithms to address performance limitations at a higher abstraction layer</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rearchitect components of the trading system to eliminate bottlenecks</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fundamental network programming</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Implement low level networking protocols</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Investigate network captures to understand latency and behavior of both exchange and internal communication</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ensure the continued stability and reliability of the trading system</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build monitoring systems for trading strategies and all other pieces of our infrastructure</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Conduct code reviews of other developers, researchers and operations team members</span></li>

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