C++ Software Engineer - C++, Python - Financial/Banking

C++ Software Engineer - C++, Python - Financial/Banking

Candidates with varying levels of C++ and Python experience will be considered from Intermediate to Senior - ideal candidates will come from a Financial/Banking background with knowledge of Equities, Futures & Options and Fixed Income and Exchange Connectivity with some Low Latency experience.

Job Overview

You will work with the Product, Infrastructure and QA teams, to produce high performance, low latency and highly reliable code. Your goal will be to develop software which handle large amount of TPS to drive a highly efficient technology used by several markets around the world.

To be successful in this role, you will be a proponent of agile methodology and modern software best practices. You can produce detailed technical work in OOP and work with other members of the Development team to produce code of high-quality standards. Ideally, you should have worked in critical systems development in the past.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Codes, tests, integrates, and documents software.
• Provides technical leadership to more junior employees and other teams.
• Apply principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex products.
• Participate as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems.
• Work on the hardest technical problems facing the company, often these problems are unusually complex and require the utmost creativity and innovation.
• Apply and champion the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products.
• Keep abreast of technology trends and champion new ideas and process improvements.

Required Skills/Experience

• 2+ years development experience in C++ 11 and Boost creating performant, scalable applications.
• 2+ years of experience in networking (UDP, Multicasting, TCP, etc ), messaging, and algorithms.
• 2+ years of experience on Linux systems.
• Good understanding of modern development best practices and methodologies and good knowledge of Git/GitHub.
• Python, including Pytest.

Knowledge of capital markets exchange connectivity on stocks (Fixed Income and derivatives is a plus), including exchange protocols such as FIX and SBE.

Most importantly, a drive to solve complex technological and trading challenges with a great team of talented developers.

Comfortable using Agile methodology, including continuous integration, sprints, Jira and the relevant processes and workflow.

Some understanding and usage of cloud technology is a plus but not mandatory.