Our employees are truly our greatest asset. We have spent years building a team of talented, dedicated technologists, data-driven traders, and expert leaders with an emphasis on our core values: Collaboration, Ethics, Risk Management, and Diverse Experience and Opinions. Simplex is an in-office organization, helping to foster a collaborative and communicative culture.
Career Description Simplex is looking for smart, curious, and driven individuals to join our technology team. Technology at Simplex is the core of the business. We are a technology company, specializing in high speed trading. We are looking for great people to work on all aspects of our trading system.
What will you be doing? - Build proprietary, low-latency, algorithmic trading applications.
- Design and implement highly optimized and complex algorithms that can quickly analyze market data and execute trades.
- Ensure that trading systems are as fast as possible including optimizing existing code for speed, reducing latency, and enhancing the performance of trading applications utilizing C .
- Develop systems that can process and respond to market data in the shortest time possible, working on networking, memory management, and system architecture.
- Implement solutions to process and analyze large volumes of real-time market data efficiently, identify patterns, and make split-second decisions.
Skills and Experience: - Bachelor's degree in computer science or other closely related field
- 2 years of experience as Software Developer or related occupation developing low-latency trading software applications. Experience must include building GUI applications, and C programming in a Linux environment.
Salary Range: Annual salary ranges from $125,000 to $200,000 per year.
Benefits: The benefits offered include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, paid time off, 401K, incentive pay, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, daily meal stipends, employee discounts, charity match program, commuter benefits, FSA/HSA and fun events.
Why us? Founded in Chicago in 2004, Simplex is a leading, technology-driven, proprietary trading firm. We work with the most advanced technology and software in the market, and we've continued to remain at the forefront of the industry by always focusing on innovation, automation, and data-driven analysis. We also leverage our experience and expertise to make strategic investments and capitalize on opportunities in the venture capital markets with promising, early-stage financial and technology start-ups.
PLUS, the goods. - Benefits: Excellent a la carte Medical/Dental/Vision (free employee coverage.), 401(k) match, generous parental leave.
- The Office: The kitchen is stocked with snacks, and beverages; you also have daily stipends for breakfast and lunch.
- Tuition Reimbursement: As an investment in our employees' careers and the company's future, we offer educational assistance to provide employees with professional development opportunities that increase their skills and enhance their contributions to the organization.
- Employee Discounts: To gyms, national brands, and more.
- Building: We are located in the Federal Reserve building. As a tenant you have access to a building gym and a full cafeteria. We are easily accessible to all public transportation.
- Charity Match: We match up to $2,000 a year in donations to the charities of your choice.
- Fun Events: In-person happy hours, celebrations throughout the year, game nights, video game fun, and so much more.
Simplex is an Equal Opportunity Employer