Kershner Trading Group

Senior Software Engineer - Autotrading

Kershner Trading Group, LLC is a proprietary trading company based in Austin, Texas. "KTG" provides unique opportunities to talented, energetic people, rooted in the philosophy that everyone can do more than they realize, if they try. KTG empowers independent thinkers who have the discipline to set long-term goals, the adaptability to "shift gears" but still stay on course, and are open to being both a student and teacher in a learning organization.

Kershner offers the chance to join a high-performance team comprised of new and experienced traders trading more every day and adapting to new market opportunities, talented technology professionals developing leading edge trading and market analytics systems, quantitative/ business analysts providing tools and insights to fuel business growth and top-notch support staff keeping it all humming in an environment where every day brings new challenges yet maintains the cool, casual "Austin" atmosphere.

What are you capable of?? Kershner is currently seeking candidates for the following position who are excited at the prospect of pushing their own professional limits. Think you can do more??

Job Summary:

This role provides an exciting opportunity to work with the leading market scanning and auto trading technologies. The job will be responsible for re-architecting an existing program, as well as performing some maintenance. This individual will need to have exceptional time management skills, as some projects will be time critical. Individuals will need to be strong communicators and demonstrate ability to work autonomously to be considered for the position.

Minimum Qualifications:

5 years of Win32 Delphi development
Complete understanding of object orientated programming and abstraction.
Meaningful and intimate knowledge of Turbo Pascal/Delphi
Familiarity with C++
Excellent grasp of software engineering principles including development and release lifecycle processes
Disciplined use of a source control system
Strong sense of teamwork with excellent communication and collaboration skills
Strong math and statistics background.
Meaningful experience with Excel
Experience using Windows API
Must be able to comprehend / visualize performance when looking at code.
Experience with bit mangling and numeric compression.

Desired Qualifications:

8+ years of Win32 Delphi development
Experience with .NET Delphi development
Experience with Microsoft .Net development
Low level programming experience with meaningful experience with Assembly
Experience with trading or financial software, ideally equities trading, FIX messaging protocol, etc
Experience in architectural design concepts and system design
Strong understanding of multi-threaded application development and effective use of multi-core technology
Experience with Database Architecture

This is a temp to permanent role. Compensation will be structured to reward innovation and results and based on experience.

Applicants please email cover letter, resume, references and salary history to jobs@KershnerTrading.com.

Please note the position for which you are applying in the subject line. No phone calls, please.

Member of FINRA AND SIPC.

Kershner Trading LLC is an equal opportunity employer. A cornerstone or our business is fair and equitable treatment of people. KTG does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, political ideology, disability or other legally protected status.