Senior Software Engineer Market Connectivity
Permanent - Full TimeJob Overview
In this role you will be responsible for the high-performance backend systems that connect to various exchanges, balancing the meticulous maintenance of legacy code with the engineering of modern, low-latency optimizations.
The ideal candidate is a C++ specialist who enjoys the challenge of real-time systems programming and doesn't mind occasionally jumping into the frontend to ensure end-to-end functionality for market-related changes.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining existing legacy codebase for backend applications, specifically on the exchange connectivity side
- Engineering improvements and optimizations for existing performance and memory bottlenecks
- Improving or building tools and automated tests for existing markets / exchanges
- Occasionally maintaining frontend codebase for exchange / market related changes
- Work closely with other engineers to design and implement the changes.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential Skills & Experience
- Substantial professional experience with >= C++17
- Proficiency with object-oriented design and development
- Proficiency with Linux at a systems-level for developing real-time software (lock-free and wait-free design patterns)
- Understanding of multi-threading and memory ordering concepts
- Understanding of low-latency network programming
- Experience with C++ template
- Experience with Python for developing tools and automated testing
- GDB coredump debugging experience
- Experience utilizing AI-assisted coding tools (Claude code)
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience with Javascript for Web / GUI / frontend development
- Familiarity with financial markets and exchange protocols (e.g. FIX)
- Experience with Valgrind, gprof, perf, or similar performance analysis tools