Senior Software Engineer, C++
Flow Traders is a global technology-enabled multi-asset liquidity provider and market maker.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders provides continuous on-exchange and off-exchange liquidity across exchange-traded products, fixed income, FX, commodities, and digital assets using proprietary trading technology. Its digital-assets business, active since 2017, includes crypto ETP market making, OTC trading, liquidity provision, and DeFi connectivity.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Join Flow Traders in Amsterdam to build and optimize in-house trading technology handling large-scale market data and trading across global venues. You will work with technologists, quantitative researchers, and traders on venue connectivity, trading engines, shared platforms, and high-performance software.
Requirements
- BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of post-graduation professional C++ software development experience.
- Proprietary trading industry experience is preferred.
- Ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable code.
- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Experience with parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
- Interest in maximizing performance from available hardware and software.
- Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical business colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Lead development and global rollout of the Core platform across multiple business and focus groups.
- Deploy and validate deliverables with traders and quants in a fast-paced iterative process.
- Develop tools and frameworks for data-driven systematic pricing and trading strategies.
- Refine platform requirements and iterate on design with engineers, quants, and technical traders.
- Build exchange connectivity software using APIs and protocols such as FIX, WebSocket, and HTTP.
- Maintain and extend testing suites to ensure software quality.
- Optimize exchange communication through kernel bypass, TLS, and connection handling.
- Research exchange behavior to align system behavior with exchange behavior.
- Implement exchange connectivity solutions using C++, Rust, Python, and TypeScript SDKs.
- Implement trading algorithms based on trader and quant requirements.
- Improve trading engine stability, reliability, and performance.
- Enhance monitoring and observability with Trading Operations.
- Investigate and resolve production crashes, logic issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Prepare releases and deployments of new trading engine versions.
Benefits
- Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences.
- Daily catered lunch, coffee, kitchen, and snack bar.
- In-house bar and lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles.
- Company boat.
- In-house gym and sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer.
- Bi-weekly massages.
- Annual company trip and other events.
- Global rotations across offices worldwide.
- Annual discretionary profit share.