Senior Software Engineer - Java/C++ (quant team) - Remote

Job Description

At Cboe, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. 

We’re building inclusive ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we’ve earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. Our Associate Resource Groups champion diversity, equity and inclusion, giving employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.  

Sound like the place for you? Join us!

Cboe/Hanweck is looking for an experienced Senior Java / C++ Software Engineer who seeks a new challenge in the financial technology services industry as part of the Quant Development team. You will work within a team of seasoned developers, technologists, and quants with immense experience in financial markets and a keen interest in financial modeling and analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Develop enterprise software applications and tools to process and analyze real-time financial market data in a high-performance, real-time computing environment.
• Maintain and optimize existing software applications, and recommend and implement improvements
• Implement financial models and analytics
• Provide 2nd level support for production applications developed by the team. Respond to customer questions regarding our analytics and models.
• Write technical specifications, project plans, and technical documentation; translate business requirements into functional specifications and project plans
• Regular communication with senior managers and technical colleagues
• Monitor and improve the quality of analytical data generated from our applications; develop/work with reference data team to add or modify reference data sources
• Work with product managers and business development team to write documentation, technical specifications, project plans and sales material for our data and applications

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in financial markets required (market data, reference data, risk)
• Quantitative STEM background with a strong interest in financial markets, derivatives pricing, quantitative modeling, and risk analytics experience
• Experience in financial derivatives modeling, corporate actions, securities, and derivatives reference data, including futures and options contracts
• Strong programming skills in Java and/or C++; functional programming skills in SQL; …