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# Software Engineer - C++

- **Company:** Hudson River Trading
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithmic Trading, Software Bug Management, Unix, C++ (Programming Language), Encodings, Computer Engineering, Microarchitecture, Software Debugging, Linux, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Networking Hardware, Network Service, Information Technology, Low Latency
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/f98577b0-66b3-4d75-9191-eba8517a4b14/software-engineer-c

## About the Role

- 1+ years of professional work experience 
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
- Advanced C++ experience is required, daily use preferred
- Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication


## Description

At Hudson River Trading (HRT), C++ is at the center of our live trading systems and research infrastructure. Our C++ engineers build the highly performant, fault-tolerant systems that power trading across global markets. HRT's distributed system is on the Pareto frontier of latency and throughput, giving you limitless opportunity to leverage your deep knowledge of C++, OS internals, CPU architecture, and networking hardware and protocols. You'll work side-by-side with researchers, traders, and hardware specialists, implementing solutions where every microsecond matters.

Our bottom-up approach to projects and our highly collaborative environment empower talented engineers to make significant contributions and see their impact daily. At HRT, you'll be challenged to solve complex problems in a fast-paced, highly competitive industry, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the field.

C++ Engineers at HRT work on a wide variety of projects. Examples include:

- Develop and optimize infrastructure for market data, order entry and execution logic, spanning tens of asset classes including options, equities, futures, crypto, and fixed income. 
- Design fault-tolerant, low-latency systems for live trading, including encoding/prioritization of data over WAN links and recovery from hardware failures.
- Profile and improve performance-critical code for both throughput and latency in production environments.
- Build and maintain infrastructure that drives products including client-facing wholesale and SDP platforms, distributed network filesystems, and scalable research workflows.
- Write software that interfaces with specialized hardware such as FPGAs and ASICs used in trading systems.

**Profile**

- You're one of the top devs in your current organization, as measured by productivity, technical capability, and helpfulness to other devs.
- You are capable of solving complex engineering problems independently and providing technical advice for others in areas of your expertise. 
- You can make progress on long-term architectural projects while troubleshooting smaller tasks and bug fixes with agility.
- You can describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), or anywhere in between. 
- You are always looking for ways to make systems better.