C++ Developer

Your Impact

This team is accountable for platform architecture evolution to meet the evolving needs of different business lines globally with rapid software deployment. As stewards of critical components in order execution and post-trade, the team is accountable for a high degree of software quality. The team consists of self-guided pragmatic individuals who are motivated to change the status quo in calculated ways.

As a member of the team, you will play an integral role on the trading floor. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for technology and the markets, with individuals who thrive in a fast-paced changing environment. The team takes a data driven approach to decision making and you should be willing to participate in the full product lifecycle from requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, support, and monitoring trading performance for systems and strategies used by our clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Responsibilities

+ Design, build and maintain low latency, high-performance electronic trading platform components, with a focus on market data, exchange and client connectivity and risk controls.

+ Deliver continuous optimization for latency, scale and resiliency improvements.

+ Participate in system builds for various markets globally, have curiosity and interest in understanding market microstructure details, work closely with engineering, sales and product teams globally for successful delivery of projects.

+ Basic Qualifications
+ Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience

+ 3+ years of professional experience developing deterministic high performance, low latency systems in C++ (counted in single digit microseconds)

+ Prior experience with FIX and binary exchange connectivity and market data protocols preferred

+ Strong knowledge of object oriented programming, data structures, algorithms and design patterns

+ Critical path analysis, performance optimization and hardware acceleration.

+ Linux systems programming experience including memory management, concurrent programming infrastructure, and the networking stack

+ Experience developing distributed architecture systems and messaging protocols

+ Strong analytical and problem solving skills

+ Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, self-motivated, results driven and commercially focused

Preferred Qualifications

+ Software development in C++ in the context of high performance (low-latency, high-throughput) real-time computing.

+ Familiarity with STL and C++11/14 language extensions, Boost
+ Network programming (sockets, TCP/UDP/Multicast protocols)
+ Multi-threading, concurrent programming
+ Intimate knowledge of compilers, flow of data at hardware level (memory/caches, buses) + Some experience with FPGA or other hardware acceleration technologies
+ Experience processing large static datasets as well as high volume ticking data sources + Over 3 years' experience in Financial industry(Good to have)