Experienced C++ Developer, Distributed Compute

Job Description

Hudson River Trading is seeking an Experienced C++ Developer to join their distributed compute team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in maintaining and improving their research environment, ensuring it remains best-in-class for quantitative researchers and traders.

The role involves developing and optimizing technical solutions that enhance the ease and efficiency of research. This includes resource scheduling, data caching, and job monitoring, utilizing both in-house and open-source tools. The developer will also be responsible for optimizing workloads at both the user and infrastructure levels, sharing metrics with users, and understanding their specific technical needs.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure HRT’s research environment is best in class, with a focus on user workloads
• Maintain and improve resource scheduling, data caching, and job monitoring
• Optimize workloads at the user level to speed up user iteration speed
• Tune workloads at the infrastructure level to make them more resource-efficient
• Share metrics and real-time information with users
• Collaborate with users to understand their specific technical needs
• Set technical direction for the platform and take ownership of the software infrastructure

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Strong C++ expertise
• Python familiarity preferred
• Experience collaborating with quantitative researchers and traders
• Great communication capabilities
• Superior design, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems, system/processor performance, and network communication

HRT offers:

• Discretionary performance-based bonuses
• Competitive benefits package