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# Platform Lead at Atto Trading

- **Company:** Atto Trading
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-06-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/attotrading/jobs/4293852009

## Job description

About us:

Atto Trading, a dynamic quantitative trading firm founded in 2010 and leading in global high-frequency strategies, is looking for a Platform Lead to join our team in New York.

We are expanding an international, diverse team, with experts in trading, statistics, engineering, and technology. Our disciplined approach combined with rapid market feedback allows us to quickly turn ideas into profit. Our environment of learning and collaboration allows us to solve some of the world’s hardest problems, together. As a small firm, we remain nimble and hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, ingenuity, and effort.

Position Highlights:

We are modernizing our trading and research platform to enable the scaling of our alpha trading business. The platform will enable researchers to explore, test, and deploy sophisticated signals, models, and strategies across asset classes, in a robust, fully automated manner, while remaining within highly competitive latency targets. As a Platform Lead you will own the roadmap and architecture of the new platform, and its integration with Atto’s stack and trading strategies. You will manage the dev team while also remaining hands-on and contributing to the platform key components on a daily basis.

Your Mission and Goals:

- Lead the development of the next generation high-frequency trading platform
- Build and manage a results-driven team, fostering strong teamwork
- Establish coding standards, testing, and documentation practices
- Ensure successful design and implementation, using modern C++ and industry best practices
- Prototype key components and maintain high reliability and fault tolerance
- Adapt to a fast-paced environment, evolving the platform to meet trading needs while managing technical debt

Requirements:

- 5+ years as a Core or Quant Developer at a top HFT firm (not banks or funds) within the last 7 years
- Experience with multiple components of HFT platforms, particularly critical path elements
- Background in a startup phase HFT firm or trading team experience is highly desirable
- Demonstrated management and leadership skills

Tech skills:

- End-to-end understanding of modern HFT platforms, including market data, order entry, threading model, research environment, simulator, and strategy API
- Strong C++ (C++17 or newer)
- Working knowledge of Python
- Knowledge and experience in a multithreaded environment; synchronization
- Good understanding of networking at the protocol level
- Good usage of software development tools
- Knowledge of operating systems, kernel-level understanding of device system mechanisms for Linux
- AI & Productivity Tools: Demonstrated ability to effectively leverage modern AI tools (e.g., generative AI, code assistants, research and productivity tools) to improve quality, speed, decision-making, and workflow efficiency while maintaining strong judgment, accuracy, and ownership of outcomes

About you:

- Strong practical decision-making abilities
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Deep passion for trading

Benefits:

- Competitive rates of pay
- Paid time off (4 weeks)
- Coverage of health insurance costs
- Office lunches
- Discretionary bonus system

Our motivation:

We are a company committed to staying at the forefront of technology. Our team is passionate about continual learning and improvement. With no external investors or customers, we are the primary users of the products we create, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact on our company's growth.

Ready to advance your career? Join our innovative team and help shape the future of trading on a global scale. Apply now and let's create the future together!

## About Atto Trading

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Atto Trading is a quantitative, high-frequency trading firm that uses advanced research, proprietary ultra-low-latency technology, and a scientific approach to trade global financial markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: South Miami, Florida, United States
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Denis Popov (Founder and CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Quantitative trading / High-frequency trading (HFT) / Capital Markets
- **Target customers**: The firm trades for its own account (proprietary trading) across multiple asset classes; it does not serve external clients.
- **Mission or purpose**: To combine advanced engineering and data-driven insights to build the defining edge in increasingly complex global markets, pushing the limits of what’s possible in electronic trading.

## Products & Services
- **Proprietary Ultra-Low-Latency Trading Platform**: An in-house built platform optimized for speed and reliability, used to execute quantitative strategies across equities, futures, and digital assets.
- **Quantitative Trading Strategies**: A diverse portfolio of systematic strategies driven by mathematical modeling, market microstructure research, and real-time decision-making.
- **Research Infrastructure**: Internal tools and data pipelines for alpha research, signal generation, and market analysis.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue not disclosed; Total Funding not disclosed (bootstrapped)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not applicable (no external investors listed)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew 15% year-over-year (to ~17 employees as of mid-2026)
  - Active hiring across multiple offices (New York, Kyiv, Miami, Lisbon) for roles in C++ development, low-latency engineering, quant research, and trading operations
  - Expanding geographic footprint with offices in the US, Ukraine, UK, Japan, Poland, and Portugal

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary ultra-low-latency platform**: All technology, from signal generation to execution, is built in-house, giving complete control over performance and adaptability.
- **Deep market microstructure expertise**: Over 15 years of compounding knowledge in electronic markets, non-linear modeling, and high-performance engineering.
- **Small, agile team**: Flat structure where individual contributions have outsized impact; teams collaborate rather than compete, sharing tools and knowledge.
- **Culture of intellectual rigor**: Emphasizes curiosity, persistence, and a “team first” mindset, attracting top talent from leading HFT firms and strong academic backgrounds.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuous innovation**: Relentless iteration on strategies and infrastructure to maintain a competitive edge in dynamic markets.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring exceptional engineers, researchers, and traders to scale the firm while preserving its collaborative culture.
- **Global expansion**: Building out teams in key financial hubs (New York, Miami, Kyiv, Lisbon) to access diverse talent and market opportunities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Persistence. Curiosity. Team First.” – a collaborative environment where ideas win on merit and cross-team knowledge sharing is encouraged.
- **Impact**: Small firm (~17 people) means your work is visible and directly affects trading performance; ownership of projects from day one.
- **Compensation**: Highly competitive pay (LinkedIn reviews rate compensation 4.0/5.0) with strong incentives for performance.
- **Engineering excellence**: Focus on low-latency systems (C++, high-performance computing), clean design, and measurable performance improvements; engineers work closely with researchers and traders.
- **Work model**: Mix of in-office and remote depending on location; offices in South Miami (HQ), New York, Miami Beach, Kyiv, Lisbon, and others.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the firm emphasizes intellectual challenge, continuous learning, and a flat hierarchy.

## Sources
1. [atto-trading.com](https://atto-trading.com/)
2. [Who We Are | Atto Trading](https://atto-trading.com/who-we-are)
3. [What We Do | Atto Trading](https://atto-trading.com/what-we-do)
4. [Jobs at Atto Trading - Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/attotrading)
5. [LinkedIn - Atto Trading](https://www.linkedin.com/company/atto-trading)

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