Software Engineer
About the job
- C++11 and higher experience
- Excellent design and debugging skills
- Experience developing for production critical systems
- Excellent communication and prioritization skills
- Develop and maintain scalable trading applications and infrastructure for many financial markets
- Assist with developing the full stack of infrastructure to support trading operations
- Work in a fast-paced environment with daily or more frequent release cycles and prioritize between longer and shorter term needs
- Optimize latency and bandwidth across hardware drivers, TCP/multicast handlers, and Python interfaces; understand trade-offs in clock cycles and CPU cache effects
- Use multi-core/multi-threaded communications with lock-free algorithms to maximize computational throughput; understand run-time behavior, serialization delays, and asymptotic behavior in this environment
- Experience with Python
- Experience with x86 hardware
- Experience with performance engineering
- Understanding of Intel Xeon pipelining and cache behavior
- Experience with the TCP networking stack
- Experience optimizing Linux kernels / using kernel-bypass networking
- Experience leveraging AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
About the company
Ansatz Capital is a quantitative trading software firm that builds and uses software and a research framework to study and implement trading strategies. The company treats markets as an intellectual discipline, with a lean, collaborative team supported by a high-end technology stack to generate and test research ideas and quickly turn them into trading implementations. Its approach centers on strong teamwork and rapid idea execution, aiming to produce practical, well-researched strategies rather than rely on large, slow organizational structures. The goal is to develop and apply quantitative methods that generate actionable trading ideas and turn them into profitable trades efficiently.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2013
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Its website was updated July 31, 2026, showing an active operating business.
- Lever postings and recent hiring trackers indicate continued demand for engineers in 2026.
- London incorporation on January 23, 2025 expands geographic reach beyond New York.
What critics are saying
- No public funding, revenue, or AUM disclosure makes the business impossible to underwrite.
- Jobera and Scoutify show only four to five openings, signaling a tiny team.
- If trading performance slips, a small prop shop like Ansatz Capital can shrink fast.
What makes Ansatz Capital unique
- Ansatz Capital runs quantitative trading from New York, with a London entity formed January 2025.
- Its Lever postings show research-engineer and software-engineer roles built around strategy deployment.
- The firm markets itself as a lean, technical trading startup with production-critical systems.
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Benefits
Meal Benefits
Home Office Stipend
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Wellness Program