Senior / Principle Software Engineer - C++, Python

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Senior / Principal Software Engineer - C++, Python – Financial / Banking

Candidates will have 10+ years of C++ experience and excellent knowledge of Python – ideally coming from a Financial / Banking background with knowledge of Equities, Futures & Options, Fixed Income, and Exchange Connectivity.

Job Overview

You will work with the Product, Infrastructure, and QA teams to produce high-performance, low-latency, and highly reliable code. Your goal will be to develop software that handles large amounts of TPS to drive a highly efficient technology used by several markets around the world.

To be successful in this role as a Principal Software Engineer – C++, you will be a proponent of agile methodology and modern software best practices. You can produce detailed technical work in OOP and work with other members of the Development team to produce code of high-quality standards. Ideally, you should have worked in critical systems development in the past.

Responsibilities and Duties

1. Codes, tests, integrates, and documents software.
2. Provides technical leadership to more junior employees and other teams.
3. Applies principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex products.
4. Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems.
5. Works on the hardest technical problems facing the company, often these problems are unusually complex and require the utmost creativity and innovation.
6. Applies and champions the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support technical engineering products.
7. Keeps abreast of technology trends and champions new ideas and process improvements.

Required Skills/Experience

1. 10+ years of development experience in C++ 11 and Boost creating performant, scalable applications.
2. 6+ years of experience in networking (UDP, Multicasting, TCP, etc.), messaging, and algorithms.
3. 6+ years of experience on Linux systems.
4. Good understanding of modern development best practices and methodologies.
5. Python, including Pytest.
6. Knowledge of capital markets exchange connectivity on stocks (fixed income and derivatives is a plus), including exchange protocols such as FIX and SBE.
7. A drive to solve complex technological and trading challenges with a great team of talented developers.
8. Comfortable using Agile methodology, including continuous integration, sprints, Jira, and the relevant processes and workflow.
9. Some understanding and usage of cloud technology is a plus but not mandatory.