Core Platform Developer - Java or C++

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive platform for front to back trading systems like order management, exchange connectivity, smart order routing, internalization, clearing and securities lending.
• Use data to guide decision-making, developing or enhancing tools as necessary to collect it.
• Understand market rules, regulations, exchange service offerings, front to back business functions and build systems to facilitate them.
• Communication with traders, sales, clients and compliance officers about new systems, feature requests, explanation of existing features etc.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience building C++/Java systems with strict requirements for low-latency (microseconds count) and deterministic performance. 
• Prior experience with Event Sourcing (Sequenced core stream) based architecture.
• Experience building high performance cash equities trading systems (such as matching engines and trading systems at high volume Exchanges).
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• Experience in data driven performance analysis and optimizations.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to solve high performance engineering problems in a language agnostic manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Linux systems programming experience including memory management, concurrent programming infrastructure, and the networking stack
• Off-heap memory management,
• Distributed server software experience
• JVM internals, tuning for low-latency
• Hardware stack and hardware architecture from a latency perspective