C++ Software Engineer (Price Team)
Website Trading Technologies
Futures Trading Platform
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
What We Bring to the Table?
- Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, 401(k) and pre-tax transit/parking
- Flexible work schedules – with some remote work
- 22 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, one day per year available for volunteering, 2 Training days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development, 1 additional PTO day added during a milestone year, robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents), and backup child and pet care as well as tutoring services
- The company provided top-of-the-line tech resources and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, office equipment.
- Milestone anniversary bonuses
- Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones and laptops, gym memberships, and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums and healthy meal delivery programs)
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.
Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
To apply for this job please visit tradingtechnologies.pinpointhq.com