Senior Software Engineer – Client retention POD

Key Responsibilities

• Order Lifecycle Management: Maintain and evolve the core ASE/ALGO codebase, ensuring deterministic and reliable handling of orders, cancellations, executions and Market Data .
• Performance Engineering: Identify and resolve memory bottlenecks and CPU spikes within the orderrouting/Market data path to ensure consistent "p99" latency.
• Collaborative Development: Partner closely with other developers, and product managers to design and deliver robust, scalable software solutions.
• Code Maintenance and Fixing: The responsibility to "maintain and evolve the core ASE/ALGO codebase" aligns with the L3 pod's need to perform small, impactful improvements and fixes to client retention and stability issues.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Professional Experience: Substantial experience developing in C++ (standard 17 or higher) and Scala ideally within a trading firm.
• Expert Debugging: The requirement for "High proficiency with GDB (including advanced coredump analysis) and memory profiling tools" is essential for a team that acts as the first line of escalation for all PRBs, including crashes and alerts
• Concurrent Programming: Strong proficiency in writing, optimizing, and debugging complex multi-threaded applications.
• Expert Debugging: High proficiency with GDB (including advanced coredump analysis) and memory profiling tools.
• Modern Tooling: Experience utilizing AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot) to accelerate development, refactoring, and code quality.
• Strong Computer Science Foundations: A deep passion for algorithms, data structures, and the principles of clean, maintainable code.

• Domain Expertise: Prior hands-on experience with the Algo and Google ProtoBuf . .
• Scripting: Proficiency in Python for developing automated test suites.
• Performance Analysis: Experience with valgrind, perf and gprof for identifying and mitigating micro-architectural bottlenecks.