Overview :

Our technology engineers are employed in building, maintaining, and supporting trading systems that are fundamental to our success and competitiveness in the current trading environment. Susquehanna has continued to expand its team of talented Software and Systems Engineers. Over the past few years, the technology team has grown to over 3000 employees worldwide, with over 260+ in Sydney. Susquehanna’s continued success will – in large part – be based on the capabilities provided to our traders by the growing Technology and Quantitative Research Teams. As a Software Developer within our Connectivity team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with traders and the firm’s top technologists. Ideally, you will have a background in trading systems and/or performance tuning and want the chance to compete against the best systems in the world.

What you can expect from us:

Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: You will partner closely with our  trading and Strategy Developer Teams to deliver and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region and globally.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits link

In this role, you will:

Develop and enhance trading applications by designing, implementing and delivering complex software systems that meet the business needs. Solve complex problems by providing innovative and scalable solutions with a focus on high frequency and low latency automated trading.
Bring/gain a thorough understanding of the business domain (trading, strategies, market making, market data and low latency). This is a hands-on role where you will thrive on the technology challenges. You will see your ideas and hard work used by experienced traders across a diverse range of instruments and markets.

What we’re looking for:

•  A bachelor's degree (or higher) in a technical or related discipline
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience designing and developing applications using object
  oriented programming using C++ on Linux, as well as proficiency in Python
• An expert level C++/Linux developer with knowledge of - design, profiling, performance
  tuning, OO, generic programming, STL, boost, sockets, multi-threading and IPC
• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy and a thorough understanding of full life-cycle
  development and performance optimization/latency reduction methodologies.
• A demonstrated track record of successfully delivering complex applications that meet
  demanding performance and scalability goals.
• Demonstrated knowledge of financial products and experience with Hong Kong exchange connectivity.

About SIG:
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together. 

What we do:
We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to recruiting@sig.com. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will not be eligible for an agency fee.