Trading Strategy Software Engineer

BlackEdge Capital is a proprietary options market maker built on industry-leading technology and a collaborative culture. The company is hiring a Trading Strategy Software Engineer to design and optimize nanosecond-level C++ trading systems, integrate FPGA hardware, and bring machine learning signals into production automated trading systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and relentlessly optimize nanosecond level trading systems in C++, owning code from architecture through live production
• Partner closely with hardware engineers on FPGA integration, co-designing the software/hardware logic split and communication across that boundary
• Work directly with researchers to take machine learning signals from idea to development to production by integrating them into our automated trading system
• Keep the codebase clean: we favor a pragmatic, deliberately chosen subset of modern C++ that prioritizes simplicity, clarity, and maintainability

Requirements:

• Strong command of modern C++ in performance critical systems, with the judgment to keep code simple and clear
• Deep understanding of operating system design, cache behavior, memory, and concurrency and how they can be tuned to extract performance
• A demonstrated ability to design and reason about latency critical software; you think in nanoseconds, not just milliseconds
• You enjoy working across boundaries and communicate well with people from diverse backgrounds and skills
• Hands on experience with FPGAs, HLS, or close software/hardware co design
• Kernel bypass networking (ef_vi / OpenOnload, DPDK) and low-level network programming
• Exposure to machine learning, quantitative research, or production model deployment
• Familiarity with futures markets or market microstructure