# Senior Software Engineer - Algo Development

**Company**: Equity IT
**Location**: New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,000 to $250,000
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Algo Development Technology team at Millennium, a global alternative investment firm.

The Algo Development Technology team builds the execution algorithms and trading platform used by Millennium's portfolio managers to trade equities and futures globally.

Responsibilities:

- Build real-time algorithmic trading systems focused on execution optimization.

- Develop, support and enhance a Java-based proprietary trading framework.

- Tune and optimize system performance to support low-latency, high-throughput trading workflows.

- Own automated testing for algorithms, including simulation, backtesting, regression suites and replay frameworks.

- Partner with the production support team to ensure systems are effectively monitored and supported.

- Partner with quants, execution traders and global technology teams to define and deliver new features.

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience with equities execution systems, ideally buy-side.

- Experience developing execution algorithms, including VWAP, TWAP, inline and pairs strategies.

- Experience working with matching engines, dark pools and algorithm container frameworks.

- Expert-level Java experience building low-latency, GC-aware, high-throughput distributed systems.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- algorithmic trading
- execution algorithms
- VWAP
- TWAP
- matching engines
- dark pools
- algorithm container frameworks
- low-latency systems
- GC-aware systems
- high-throughput systems
- distributed systems

### Nice to have
- KDB/Q
- AI-based code-generation tools
- financing or post-trade systems
- futures trading platforms

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