Senior C++ Software Engineer
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Requirements
• BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent • 5+ years post-graduation professional C++ software development experience within the Financial industry • Ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable code • Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures • Experience in parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming • Interest in achieving maximum performance from available hardware and software • Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical business colleagues • Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders
Responsibilities
• Main technical activities include: • For all C++ openings: • Lead the development and global rollout of our Core platform used in multiple business/focus groups (Market data, Quantitative research, Pricing, Strategies) • Be involved in the development process, which will be a fast-paced iterative process where you deploy your deliverables and validate them yourself and/or together with traders or quants • Develop tools/frameworks to deliver capabilities for tuning/develop data-driven systematic pricing and trading strategies • Work together with focus group engineers, Quants and Technical traders to refine requirements, collect feedback, and iterate on design and implementation of platform requirements • 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
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