Senior Architect - Wholesale Market Making - Two Sigma Securities

Job Description

Two Sigma is a financial sciences company, combining data analysis, invention, and rigorous inquiry to help solve the toughest challenges in investment management, insurance technology, securities, private equity, and venture capital.

Two Sigma Securities (TSS) is the systematic market-making and trading arm of Two Sigma. Two Sigma Securities brings a scientific approach to systematic trading and risk management and makes markets more efficient. Our team trades over 10,000 US equities and 400,000 listed options, leveraging our high performance trading system to execute over a billion shares per day. Two Sigma Securities is entering an exciting growth phase. We value the insights of our colleagues and encourage them to innovate and shape their own work agenda. New joiners use our proprietary platform to work on diverse projects. From building next generation trading technologies and researching novel AI and machine learning techniques to enhancing our strategies and deploying automation, our team is pushing the frontier in systematic trading.

We are seeking a world-class Software Architect to join our Wholesale Market Making (WMM) engineering team. WMM Engineering works with modelers and traders to refine our trading tactics and trading systems. The WMM trading system is a high throughput, distributed system that handles different retail order types, internalization and liquidation tactics, and order placement with very high reliability. WMM engineers have exposure to all aspects of the trading system, from offline processing of massive amounts of data, to high performance, low level optimizations for critical paths of retail equities trading.

You will take on the following responsibilities:

• Design the next generation wholesale market making system.
• Work with a team of software engineers to implement and scale up the new system.
• Collaborate with modeling and trading partners to help unlock increased volume.
• Take responsibility for the execution and success of related complex technical projects.
• Contribute technically to projects through architecture, design and hands-on implementation.

You should possess the following qualifications:

• At least a BS/BA in a technical or quantitative field.
• 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership.
• A deep understanding of design, architecture, data structures and algorithms.
• Hands-on coding experience in C, C++, or Rust.
• Demonstrated experience in large-scale systems.
• Previous experience with wholesale trading systems is highly beneficial but not strictly required.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.