Senior C++ Engineer (Trading exp mandatory)
Posted 4 days ago by Jobserve
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London
Summary: As a Senior C++ Engineer, you will contribute to a high-performing team focused on developing and optimizing a global derivatives algorithmic trading platform. Your role involves collaborating with technologists, quants, and traders to enhance trading technology and ensure market-leading performance. Key responsibilities include implementing trading algorithms, optimizing exchange communication, and resolving production issues. A strong background in C++ development within the financial industry is essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Write software for exchange connectivity, handling market data and orders through various protocols.
- Ensure software quality through testing suites, maintenance, and extension.
- Optimize exchange communication and research exchange behavior.
- Implement trading algorithms based on trader and quant requirements.
- Continuously improve trading engine stability, reliability, and performance.
- Enhance monitoring and observability in collaboration with the Trading Operations team.
- Investigate and resolve production issues, including crashes and performance bottlenecks.
- Prepare for releases and deployments of new trading engine versions.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of professional C++ software development experience in the financial industry.
- Solid understanding of parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Understanding of trading lifecycle and compliance requirements.
- Technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL, or other languages.
- Experience in application deployment best practices.
- Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to thrive in high-pressure situations.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and flexible with a positive attitude.
- Ambition to solve open-ended problems using analytical methods.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Job Description:
Mandatory Skills: C++ Application Programming
Job Description
As a Senior C++ Engineer, you will be a member of a small, high performing team responsible for global derivatives algorithmic trading platform. Working closely with technologists, quants and traders to develop our in-house trading technology and optimise it to achieve market-leading performance and reliability.
Our proprietary trading platform includes everything from venue connectivity (feed handlers and ordering gateways) to trading engines to shared platforms that enable us to work quickly and efficiently - we are proud of our open and collaborative culture, so you'll have plenty of opportunity to find what fits you best.
The main activities include:
Exchange Connectivity
Write software that communicates with exchanges through their APIs, receiving market data and sending orders over the network in different protocols, such as FIX, Websocket or HTTP requests
Ensure quality of software based on a set of testing suites, which you are expected to use, maintain and extend
Optimize exchange communication through Kernel bypass, optimizing TLS or the connection handling to an exchange
Research exchange behavior in detail to align our behavior to that of an exchange
Implement these solutions using the provided exchange SDKs in different languages such as C++, Rust, Python, Typescript
Trading Strategies
Implement trading algorithms based on requirements provided by traders and quants
Acquire and develop the necessary trading knowledge to successfully translate the requirements into actual software implementation
Continuously improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine
Enhance monitoring and observability in collaboration with the Trading Operations team
Investigate and resolve production issues such as crashes, unexpected business logic behavior, and performance bottlenecks
Prepare for releases and deployments of new trading engine versions Key Skills and Experience required
5+ years post-graduation professional C++ software development experience within the Financial industry
Solid understanding of parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming to build distributed systems
Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and propose innovative solutions.
Understanding of trading lifecycle, including order capture & execution, allocation workflow, settlement, and compliance requirements
Must have strong technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages
Solid track record in application deployment best practices
Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting, owning reliability improvements and ensuring their successful delivery Soft Skills:
Excellent communication skills to interact with traders, developers, and stakeholders.
Thrives in high-pressure situations while working alongside traders, developers and other engineering teams
Proactive, self-motivated, and flexible with a positive attitude
Ability to work under demanding deadlines with changing priorities in a trading room environment
Ambition to solve open-ended problems using analytical methods
