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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