C++ Software Engineer (DV Commodities - Chicago)

About Us : Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser. Overview: We are building out the next generation of our proprietary electronic trading platform — a greenfield, event-based trading and market data system covering pricing, execution, and risk management — and we are looking for a senior C++ engineer to help lead that effort. You will design and build the systems our trading desks depend on every day: ultra-low-latency execution engines, market data pipelines, order and risk management, and direct connectivity to the world’s major futures and commodities exchanges. This is a hands-on senior role on a small team with broad ownership across the trading stack — the code you write goes to production and trades real markets. Job Responsibilities: Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of DV Commodities' core C++ trading platform: execution, order management, market data, pricing, and risk. Design and maintain direct exchange connectivity — order entry gateways and feed handlers for venues such as CME (iLink 3 / MDP 3.0), ICE, and other futures and commodities markets. Drive microsecond- and nanosecond-level performance work: lock-free data structures, cache-aware design, kernel-bypass networking, CPU pinning and NUMA tuning, and rigorous latency measurement. Work directly with trading desks on new feature requests, pricing, and execution algos, and with quants and developers on cross-f