XTX Markets

algorithmic trading

SoftwareEngineer-TradingSystemDeveloper

$200–300k New York, New York, United States
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer - Trading System Developer at XTX Markets. Skills: trading system development, Kotlin, object-oriented languages, Computer Science fundamentals, high-performance systems. Architects, implements and maintains a diverse set of trading systems. build a wide range of systems which prop trading on venue and OTC liquidity provision platforms across other asset classes”

What You'll Achieve.

maximize the effectiveness of our proprietary trading algorithms

Industry & Context.

algorithmic trading
Eligibility Requirements

occasional requirement for travel to our London offices, 4 days per week in the office, 1 from home

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

experienced coder, solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, several years of experience working in Kotlin or other object-oriented languages like Java, C++, or C#, knows how to build technology quickly and safely using a variety of testing methods, unblocks the team with code reviews that prioritise correctness over style preferences, experience in systems with requirements of microseconds per request or gigabits per second per thread

Nice to Have

well-founded understanding of ETFs, any domain knowledge, experience or evidence of interest within finance

What You'll Do.

implements and maintains a diverse set of trading systems

build a wide range of systems which prop trading on venue and OTC liquidity provision platforms across other asset classes

Receives reference implementations of models from quants

hard control requirements from Risk and Compliance

and system ergonomics requests from Trading Analysts

working on our ETF trading system

implementing high-performance trading venue integrations

fair value generation

risk controls and real time UIs

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

working closely with quants, Risk and Compliance, and Trading Analysts; close platform with stakeholders to the system in NYC; working closely with OTC’s developers in London; collaboration on all aspects of the business; people collaborate on all aspects of the business, working openly and with respect for each other

Full Job Description

The Firm XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and has over 250 employees based in London, Singapore, New York, Paris, Bristol, Mumbai, Yerevan and Kajaani. We leverage the talent of the people who work here, modern computational techniques and state-of-the-art research infrastructure to analyse large data sets across markets quickly and efficiently, to maximize the effectiveness of our proprietary trading algorithms. We are actively seeking new methods and ideas. The models that drive our trading strategies have evolved considerably over the last 10 years, from econometric methods that gave our company its name, to trees, to neural networks, to modern deep learning architectures. XTX Markets has an unrivalled level of computational resources in the trading industry, with a growing research cluster currently containing over 25,000 GPUs with 650 petabytes of usable storage. Teams across the firm include world-class researchers with backgrounds in pure math, programming, physics, computer science and machine learning. The firm is also constructing a large-scale data centre in Finland to future-proof its significant computational capabilities. At XTX Markets technology is our business and we are a diverse organization which attracts outstanding talent from across all industry backgrounds. We are focused on teamwork, and our people collaborate on all aspects of the business, working openly and with respect for each other, our clients and the market. Our culture is non-hierarchical and one where everyone is valued. We strive for excellence in everything we do. The Role The OTC

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