Sr Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Building trusted markets - powered by our people At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. We’re building meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we’ve earned as a global market leader.

Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. We strive to provide employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.

The Cboe FX and U.S. Treasuries Low Latency Engineering team is hiring a Senior Principal Software Engineer. This position entails building and maintaining reliable high-performance software applications that are part of the Cboe FX trading platform. This role must apply principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, mathematical analysis and problem solving. The Senior Principal Software Engineer will help set technical direction, mentor other engineers, and lead architecture decisions for the platform.

This person will also serve as the primary escalation point for operational problems, leading root-cause analysis and driving resolution of critical production issues during on-call periods.

Cboe’s New York office is located in the heart of one of the world's most dynamic financial districts, offering employees an exciting, fast-paced environment at the forefront of global trading and finance. Situated in Manhattan, our office provides easy access to Wall Street, major financial institutions, and a network of innovative fintech companies. With a central location, Associates can enjoy excellent transportation options, as well as the vibrant culture, dining, and entertainment that New York City is known for.

Our office fosters a collaborative atmosphere with a high-energy vibe, giving employees the best of both worlds: the close-knit camaraderie of a focused team and the expansive opportunities of a global organization.

• Code, test, debug, and document technical assignments
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, applying business and product knowledge to propose high-level technical and procedural approaches
• Lead the architecture and design of complex, distributed, latency-sensitive trading systems, delivering high-quality, well-tested solutions and setting technical direction for the team
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, raising the bar for code quality, testing, and engineering practice
• Drive cross-team technical decisions and influence the engineering roadmap in partnership with team leadership
• Document any relevant details in the wiki for a self-sustaining product
• Evaluate and champion adoption of emerging technologies and AI-powered tools throughout the software development lifecycle (coding, testing, code review, and documentation) to improve efficiency, quality, and engineering velocity

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in writing highly performant, well-tested, and elegant Java code, with recent, hands-on experience in a real-time trading environment
• Building and maintaining multithreaded, distributed, real-time trading systems
• Designing highly distributed, fail-safe systems
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and work cross-functionally with staff in operations and sales
• Ability to optimize applications/systems for performance
• Demonstrated experience leading technical design, architecture decisions, and mentoring other engineers
• Self-directed, self-motivated
• Preferable to have 3-5 years’…