C++ Software Developer - Front Office

About this role

<div> <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About Us:</strong></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.</span></div> <div> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Overview:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are looking for an experienced software developer to join our front office team responsible for development and daily operations of trading systems that provide services to traders.</span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Job Responsibilities:</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lead in the design, implementation, and deployment of DV’s core trading platform C++ 17</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Bring deep technical knowledge such as parallel programming, trading systems, networking, or performance analysis</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Work on cross-functional teams across trading, quant, and development to troubleshoot and solve complex problems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Work directly with trading desks on new feature requests</span></li> </ul> <div> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Requirements:</strong></span></p> </div> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">3+ years of experience building performant, scalable applications in C++</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience working on Linux</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Solid understanding of multi-threaded/multi-core programming paradigms</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Object-oriented design and programming experience</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Highly collaborative in nature, with excellent written and verbal communication skills</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Familiarity with options trading and trading systems is a plus.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field from an accredited institution</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <p style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em>DV is not accepting unsolicited </em><span class="x_c-mrkdwnhighlight"><em>resumes</em></span><em> from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with DV should submit </em><span class="x_c-mrkdwnhighlight"><em>resumes</em></span><em> in response to DV’s posted positions. All </em><span class="x_c-mrkdwnhighlight"><em>resumes</em></span><em> submitted by search firms to DV via e-mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of…