Tower Research Capital

• Technically-challenging problems
• Good people management
• Flexible work timings
• Great pay and perks

• Ops/infrastructure side is weak compared to the rest of engineering, although this is improving after the recent reorg.
• Company has historically been slow to adopt new technology outside of the low-latency C++ domain and slow to leverage the open-source ecosystem. Again, things are improving - for example there is a push to use web tech, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud compute services and so on.
• Need for regulation/compliance means some things that are standard at companies in other business domains are missing here. For example, engineers don't have laptops.

Keep doing what you're doing. Things are moving in the right direction.