Description

Title: Execution Algo Developer
Firm: Premiere Global Hedge Fund
Experience: 5+ years of experience (up to 15)

Summary: The Execution Algo Developer role sits within a centralized electronic trading business responsible for all automated trading and execution across global equity markets. The group works closely with traders and quantitative researchers to design strategies and systems that react quickly to market conditions, manage order flow, and deliver high quality execution across diverse market structures. This team is responsible for building fast, reliable, and scalable components that support large daily trading volumes. The environment blends software engineering with applied quantitative thinking, and the work directly impacts commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy automated execution algorithms for equity and fixed income markets, from initial design through production deployment.
• Improve the performance, efficiency, and stability of the execution platform through careful tuning and thoughtful architecture.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers to strengthen execution logic, integrate new signals, and refine order placement behavior.
• Apply practical engineering judgment when choosing between short term tactical fixes and long term architectural improvements.
• Work directly with trading, operations, compliance, and peer engineering teams to ensure systems meet both business and regulatory needs.
• Design and implement core trading system components such as market data processing, connectivity to exchanges, and order handling flows.
• Evaluate whether to reuse existing internal tools or develop purpose-built components for latency and performance critical functions.
• Support the development of research tools, data infrastructure, and feature storage in partnership with research teams.

What Matters Most

• Hands-on experience architecting and deploying algorithms within a real-time trading or execution environment. This is the top priority.
• Strong skills in C++ or a similar high performance language. C++ ability is important, but direct algorithmic trading system experience is the key requirement.
• Ability to deliver robust systems in a fast moving environment where reliability, scale, and performance matter.
• Ability to deliver reliable, production quality systems in a fast-moving environment with high technical standards.