Vice President of Trading Systems
Confirmed open June 19, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Compensation
- Competitive base + bonus
- Firm Type
- Hedge Fund
What You'll Be Doing
As a Vice President of Trading Systems, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and supporting the critical systems that drive our quantitative investment platform.
Design, develop, and maintain automated trading systems and supporting infrastructure.
Build scalable services for order generation, execution, monitoring, and risk management.
Improve system performance, resiliency, and operational reliability across the trading stack.
Collaborate with quantitative researchers to deploy new strategies into production.
Develop tools for real-time monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics.
Optimize data pipelines and market data processing frameworks.
Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term engineering solutions.
Participate in architecture decisions and technology strategy initiatives.
Contribute to software engineering best practices, testing frameworks, and code quality standards.
Who We're Looking For
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
Strong software engineering experience in Python, C++, Java, or a comparable language.
Experience building distributed systems and production-grade applications.
Strong understanding of databases, networking, and systems architecture.
Experience working in Linux environments.
Why This Role
This is an exceptional opportunity to join a leading firm at the forefront of quantitative investing. You will be part of a dynamic team where your technical expertise will directly influence our trading performance and strategies, allowing you to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
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