C# Quant Developer | Hardware & Software Strategies | Experienced Hire

SIG Susquehanna

  • Philadelphia, PA Bala Cynwyd, PA
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 20 days ago
OverviewAs a Senior Quantitative Developer on the Options Market Taking Development team, you will play a critical role in designing and optimizing the systems that drive our electronic options market taking trading strategies. This role is highly performance-sensitive and offers the opportunity to work across both software and hardware-based infrastructure and algorithms.You’ll collaborate closely with traders, quants, and engineers to build and refine strategies that operate in some of the most competitive and latency-sensitive markets. A key part of your work will involve experimentation and iteration around strategy execution, enabling us to adapt quickly to changing market conditions.How you’ll make an impact:
  • Design and implement high-performance trading algorithms and contribute to the evolution of our low-latency trading infrastructure for electronic options trading
  • Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to iterate on execution logic, signal integration, and market interaction models
  • Drive experimentation frameworks that allow for rapid testing of execution hypotheses, including microstructure-aware tactics, order placement logic, and adaptive strategies
  • Tap into tens of petabytes of raw and well prepped full tick market data, strategy decisions, fundamentals, and many other data sources to understand market dynamics and find new signals
  • Work on hybrid systems that combine software algorithms with hardware acceleration like FPGAs
What you can expect from us:Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.Collaboration: Our systems engineers, network architects, technical analysts and software developers work together to create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions.Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of employee perks & benefits. Learn more about the workplace culture & software engineer experience at Susquehanna International Group from technologists like you.What we're looking for
  • At least 4+ years of programming experience in C#, with a deep understanding of high-throughput and systems-level performance is required
  • Background in developing performance-critical systems that integrate tightly with hardware, such as FPGAs, is a plus
  • Python/Pandas experience is a plus
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with traders, researchers, and other developers to iterate quickly on ideas
  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field
About SusquehannaSusquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.What we doWe are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.#LI-LM1

SIG Susquehanna