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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