Develop high-performance C++ trading systems for systematic commodities strategies, optimize low-latency systems, and ensure robust market data handling.
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
We are seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer to partner directly with a Systematic Macro Portfolio Manager, focusing on the design and optimization of low-latency trading systems. This role will concentrate on building high-performance C++ infrastructure for real-time market data ingestion, signal evaluation, and order execution across major futures exchanges. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with exchange connectivity, latency-sensitive systems, and production trading environments.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and optimize high-performance C++ trading systems for systematic commodities strategies.
- Build and maintain real-time market data handlers, signal evaluation pipelines, and order execution components.
- Identify and eliminate latency bottlenecks across the trading stack (data ingestion, strategy evaluation, execution).
- Develop and support direct connectivity to major futures exchanges (e.g., CME, ICE, Eurex, LME).
- Work with exchange protocols, contract specifications, calendars, and roll logic.
- Apply deep understanding of futures market microstructure to improve execution quality and reduce slippage.
- Profile and tune systems at the CPU, memory, and network level to achieve predictable, low-latency performance.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and recovery mechanisms for live trading systems.
- Participate in on-call rotation for production support during trading hours.
- Work closely with the Portfolio Manager to translate research ideas into latency-aware production code.
- Support rapid iteration of strategies while maintaining engineering rigor and production safety.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience as a Quant Developer, Low-Latency Trading Engineer, or similar role.
- Expert-level C++ programming skills, with strong understanding of performance-critical code design.
- Hands-on experience working with futures exchanges and listed derivatives.
- Deep familiarity with low-latency system design, including concurrency, memory management, and network I/O.
- Strong understanding of futures trading mechanics (expiries, rolls, margining, exchange rules).
- Experience working in Linux production environments.
- Experience with exchange-native market data and order entry protocols.
- Familiarity with kernel bypass, multicast market data, or performance-optimized networking.
- Python experience for research tooling or offline analysis.
- Exposure to systematic commodities trading strategies.
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