Quantitative Developer

Company Description

Portofino Technologies is a start-up building high-frequency trading (HFT) grade technology for digital assets. 

Today, Portofino provides liquidity on the largest centralised and decentralised cryptocurrency exchanges and provides services to institutions and Web3 projects that require digital asset liquidity. 

Since our establishment in 2021, we have been building market-leading HFT technology to deploy our liquidity provisioning algorithms. Our competitive advantage is our superior proprietary technology that leverages advanced machine learning and stochastic control techniques to provide our clients and partners with the best pricing in the market. 

We are backed by some of the largest VCs in the world, Valar Ventures, Coatue, and Global Founders Capital. Our vision is to scale our technology across the full crypto infrastructure value chain.

Job Description

Summary of the role

As a performance or quantitative developer, you form the backbone of the business and are responsible for building our trading system as well as connecting to new exchanges.

As an experienced C++ developer you are passionate about building scalable & performant technology. 

You are an ideal candidate if you are:

• Interested in solving low-latency systems problems and optimising performance-critical code
• Passionate about technology, interested in both low level details of how computer hardware operates and high-level design of large systems
• Have a “start up” mentality, are able to iterate quickly and write production quality code rapidly

Your responsibilities

• Responsibilities will span the entirety of the trading system, and will cover multiple products & assets within the crypto-currency trading universe (e.g. cash, futures)
• Projects may include connecting to new exchanges, upgrading major trading system components, designing a completely new application from scratch
• In this role, you will have the opportunity to deploy your coding skills to build a large-scale trading system (from scratch!) and understand crypto-currency trading

Qualifications

Your profile

• Higher university degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering with excellent grades
• Exposure to capital markets or interest in crypto and blockchain environments is highly preferred

Required technical competencies (must have)

• 2+ years experience coding in C++, affinity with C++17 and C++20 
• Professional experience in back end engineering/ python programming
• Experience with writing high performance code & benchmarking 
• Advanced skills with object oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• Experience with GDB & Valgrind
• Familiar with all phases of SDLC (unit testing, automatic build and release, peer-review, Gitlab and Cmake)
• Expert troubleshooting abilities with strong debugging and problem solving skills
• Understanding of network and hardware architecture
• Experience with thread pinning, CPU isolation, kernel bypass and shared memory is a plus

Preferred technical competencies

• Experience developing distributed systems and cloud services
• Database applications, intermediate (SQL, KDB)
• Experience with running code in containerized environments is a plus, especially Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with AWS (or other cloud software/infra) (nice to have)
• Experience with userspace network stack
• Experience with multiplexed event loops like boost asio, libuv
• Experience with custom memory allocation, memory pooling, handling of statically allocated buffers and buffer sets, using buffer sequences and scatter-gather io
• Experience with replacement classes for standard library classes
• Experience with NUMA, cache optimising code, hardware inference
• Experience in stopping template bloat

Additional Information

If interested apply directly or contact us at [email protected]

We look forward to your application!

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