C++ Developer - Risk Job at Paul Murphy Associates, Chicago, IL

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  • Paul Murphy Associates
  • Chicago, IL

Job Description

Title: Software Engineer (C++) – Risk

Location: Chicago, IL – Hybrid

Our client is seeking a motivated and skilled Software Engineer to join their Risk team. In this role, you’ll contribute to the development of a cutting-edge trading platform used by professional derivatives traders worldwide. This award-winning platform features advanced tools for spread trading, strategy development, algorithmic execution, high-frequency trading, and more, all built for performance and innovation. What Will You Be Involved With?

  • Code day to day in C++ and other programming languages
  • Design and implement software requirements and new product features
  • Enhance and maintain existing functionality
  • Participate in design discussions and review sessions
  • Create high-level and detailed design documents
  • Assist with product documentation, unit testing and ensuring overall product quality
  • Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture
  • Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
  • Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
  • Perform memory and resource management analysis
  • Analyze stack traces, core dumps and production incident reports from traders and support teams
  • Propose fixes, enhancements to existing trading systems
  • Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management
  • Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings
  • Design, develop, program server-side software components

What Will You Bring to the Table?

  • A minimum 3 years of solid modern C++ development experience and the ability to understand, write, review and debug multithreaded code is required
  • Proven experience in multi-threaded applications with a focus on performance is required
  • Experience with Linux operating systems is required
  • Experience with financial trading systems experience is a plus but not required
  • Strong object-oriented design and programming skills
  • Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements and working application code
  • Familiarity with agile/iterative development methodologies
  • Solid debugging and performance tuning skills

  • Knowledge of relational database technology, and non relational databases (Cassandra, MongoDB etc) is desirable.

Additional Desired Skills

  • Scala proficiency: Demonstrated experience leveraging Scala for complex data processing and application development.

Kafka expertise: Proven ability to design, implement, and optimize solutions using Kafka clusters.

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