Senior Software Engineer, C++
Flow Traders provides continuous liquidity across global financial markets through technology-enabled market making and trading services.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders helps institutional clients and market participants access liquidity across multiple asset classes through continuous market making services. You can trade ETPs, digital assets, fixed income, commodities, and FX products with enhanced execution quality. Flow Traders reduces trading costs and increases market efficiency through proprietary technology and global presence.
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About the Role
You'll build systems used to analyze and trade tens of thousands of products across hundreds of global trading venues every day. Working closely with Technologists, Quantitative Researchers, and Traders, you'll guide the development of in-house trading technology and optimize it for market-leading performance and reliability. You'll work across the Core platform, Exchange Connectivity, and Trading Strategies, writing software that communicates with exchanges, implementing trading algorithms, and continuously improving the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine.
Requirements
- BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of post-graduation professional C++ software development experience; proprietary trading experience preferred.
- Ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable code.
- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Experience in parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
- Interest in achieving maximum performance from available hardware and software.
- Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical business colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and global rollout of the Core platform used across multiple business and focus groups.
- Participate in a fast-paced iterative development process, deploying and validating deliverables with traders or quants.
- Develop tools and frameworks for tuning and developing data-driven systematic pricing and trading strategies.
- Work with focus group engineers, quants, and technical traders to refine requirements and iterate on design.
- Write software that communicates with exchanges through APIs using FIX, WebSocket, or HTTP.
- Maintain and extend testing suites to ensure software quality.
- Optimize exchange communication through kernel bypass and TLS or connection handling optimization.
- Research exchange behavior to align system behavior with exchange behavior.
- Implement exchange SDK solutions in C++, Rust, Python, and TypeScript.
- Implement trading algorithms based on requirements from traders and quants.
- Improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine.
- Enhance monitoring and observability with Trading Operations.
- Investigate and resolve production issues such as crashes and performance bottlenecks.
- Prepare releases and deployments of new trading engine versions.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary variable remuneration based on company, group, and individual performance and contribution.