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Senior C++ Engineer
Role Overview
Type: Contract
Day Rate: £800 per day Inside IR35
Hybrid Working: 3 days onsite in Waterloo
Length: 9+ Months initial contract
As a Senior C++ Engineer, you will be a member of a small, high performing team responsible for global derivatives algorithmic trading platform. Working closely with technologists, quants and traders to develop our in-house trading technology and optimise it to achieve market-leading performance and reliability.
Our proprietary trading platform includes everything from venue connectivity (feed handlers and ordering gateways) to trading engines to shared platforms that enable us to work quickly and efficiently. We are proud of our open and collaborative culture, so you'll have plenty of opportunity to find what fits you best.
What You'll Be Working On
You will play a key role in building and optimizing a global derivatives algorithmic trading platform, contributing across exchange connectivity, trading strategy implementation, platform reliability, and performance engineering. Working closely with traders, quants, technologists and Trading Operations, you will help deliver high-performance trading systems capable of operating in demanding, low-latency environments.
Key Responsibilities
Exchange Connectivity
- Write software that communicates with exchanges through their APIs, receiving market data and sending orders over the network in different protocols, such as FIX, WebSocket or HTTP requests.
- Ensure quality of software based on a set of testing suites, which you are expected to use, maintain and extend.
- Optimize exchange communication through kernel bypass, optimizing TLS or the connection handling to an exchange.
- Research exchange behaviour in detail to align our behaviour to that of an exchange.
- Implement these solutions using the provided exchange SDKs in different languages such as C++, Rust, Python and Typescript.
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Trading Strategies
- Implement trading algorithms based on requirements provided by traders and quants.
- Acquire and develop the necessary trading knowledge to successfully translate the requirements into actual software implementation.
- Continuously improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine.
- Enhance monitoring and observability in collaboration with the Trading Operations team.
- Investigate and resolve production issues such as crashes, unexpected business logic behaviour, and performance bottlenecks.
- Prepare for releases and deployments of new trading engine versions.
Key Skills and Experience Required
- 5+ years post-graduation professional C++ software development experience within the Financial industry.
- Solid understanding of parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming to build distributed systems.
- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and propose innovative solutions.
- Understanding of trading lifecycle, including order capture & execution, allocation workflow, settlement, and compliance requirements.
- Must have strong technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages.
- Solid track record in application deployment best practices.
- Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting, owning reliability improvements and ensuring their successful delivery.
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Soft Skills
- Excellent communication skills to interact with traders, developers, and stakeholders.
- Thrives in high-pressure situations while working alongside traders, developers and other engineering teams.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and flexible with a positive attitude.
- Ability to work under demanding deadlines with changing priorities in a trading room environment.
- Ambition to solve open-ended problems using analytical methods.
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