About the role
We are currently seeking a driven and talented C++ Software Engineer to join our team. Our Software Engineers thrive on pushing the limits of technology to produce state-of-the-art applications for TT's platform, which is the front-end screen of choice for professional derivatives traders around the world. As a Software Engineer you will work on our award-winning trading platform which incorporates robust, high-performance tools for spread trading, strategy creation, algorithmic and automated trading, black-box execution, high-frequency proximity-based trading and more.
What WIll You be Involved With?
Code day to day in C++ and other programming languages
Design and implement software requirements and new product features
Enhance and maintain existing functionality
Participate in design discussions and review sessions
Create high-level and detailed design documents
Assist with product documentation, unit testing and ensuring overall product quality
Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture
Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
Perform memory and resource management analysis
Analyze stack traces, core dumps and production incident reports from traders and support teams
Propose fixes, enhancements to existing trading systems
Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management
Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings
Design, develop, program server-side software components
What Will You Bring to the Table?
A minimum 5 years of solid modern C++ development experience and the ability to understand, write, review and debug multithreaded code is required
Proven experience in multi-threaded applications with a focus on performance is required
Experience in the trading industry (specifically market data & algorithmic trading) is strongly preferred
Experience with Linux operating systems is a plus
Knowledge of Python is a plus
Knowledge of Scala is a plus
Experience with financial trading systems experience is a plus but not required
Strong object-oriented design and programming skills
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements and working application code
Familiarity with agile/iterative development methodologies
Solid debugging and performance tuning skills
About the company
Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company's award-winning TT® platform connects to the world's major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world's leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company's blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT's technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies' global client base through the TT ecosystem.