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About this C++ Market Data Engineer (USA) role at Trexquant Investment

Trexquant Investment · Onsite · Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Trexquant is a growing systematic fund at the forefront of quantitative finance, with a core team of highly accomplished researchers and engineers. To keep pace with our expanding global trading operations, we are seeking a C++ Software Engineer to design and build high throughput / low-latency market data infrastructure. This is a high-impact role that sits at the heart of Trexquant's trading platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Write efficient, scalable and maintainable code with a strong focus on performance, testing and code quality.
  • Design and build high-performance market data infrastructure in modern C++ for equities, futures and options across global venues.
  • Build reusable libraries for decoding, normalizing, publishing and consuming market data.
  • Partner closely with quantitative researchers to understand downstream data requirements.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and ensure reliable 24/7 market data infrastructure.

Requirements

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
  • 3+ years of professional C++ (14,17,20) development experience focused on low-latency, high-throughput systems.
  • Proven track record building or maintaining real-time market-data feed infrastructure.
  • Strong grasp of concurrency, lock-free algorithms, memory-model semantics, and compiler optimizations.
  • Familiarity with serialization formats (FAST, SBE, Protocol Buffers) and time-series databases or in-memory caches.
  • Comfort with scripting in Python for prototyping, testing, and ops automation.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced trading environment.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, plus bonus based on individual and company performance.
  • Collaborative, casual, and friendly work environment
  • PPO Health, dental and vision insurance premiums fully covered for you and your dependents.
  • Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits
  • Weekly company meals

The base salary range is $150,000 - $200,000 depending on the candidate’s educational and professional background. Base salary is one component of Trexquant’s total compensation, which may also include a discretionary, performance-based bonus. This position is classified as overtime-exempt.

Trexquant is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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About Trexquant Investment

Trexquant applies quantitative methods to systematically build optimized global market-neutral equity portfolios in liquid markets. Trading signals (Alphas) are developed from thousands of data variables and extensively tested. Strategies dynamically adjust allocations to Alphas depending on recent performance. Thousands of strategies using tens of thousands of signals currently drive our live production, and our talented team of researchers from some of the best schools in the world inject new ideas into our system on an ongoing basis. Capital is managed across thousands of equity positions in the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Canada.

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