Trading Technologies International
C++ Software Engineer (Market Connectivity Team)
Trading Technologies International, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
We are currently seeking a driven and talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Order Connectivity team. Our Software Engineers thrive on pushing the limits of technology to produce state-of-the-art applications for TT’s platform, which is the front-end screen of choice for professional derivatives traders worldwide. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on our award-winning trading platform which incorporates robust, high-performance tools for spread trading, strategy creation, algorithmic and automated trading, black-box execution, high-frequency proximity-based trading, and more.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 a high and low-level design for concurrent high throughput, low-latency software architecture
Provide software development plans that meet the 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 as well as performance improvements
Analyze stack traces, core dumps, and production incident reports from traders and support teams
Propose fixes and 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 and run automated testing and unit testing
Design, develop, and program server-side software components
What Will You Bring to the Table?
A minimum of 5 years of extensive and proven development experience with C++ (ideally utilizing C++ 11 or higher)
Proficient with template and metaprogramming in general
Proficient in debugging methods and tools (GDB, Address Sanitizer, etc.)
Direct experience with object-oriented design skills
Proficient in multi-threaded applications with a focus on performance
Working knowledge of various IPC mechanisms
Experience developing components in a distributed system
Clean coding style with emphasis on readability
Familiarity with Git is a plus
Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP protocols is a plus
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements and working application code
Experience in the trading industry (specifically market data processing) and with industry protocols such as FIX/SBE/ITCH is strongly preferred
Experience with Linux operating systems is a plus
Knowledge of Python is a plus
Experience with automated testing and unit testing is a plus
Familiarity with agile/iterative development methodologies
Solid debugging and performance-tuning skills
What We Bring to the Table
Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, 401(k) and pre-tax transit/parking
Flexible work schedules – with some remote work
22 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents) and backup child care as well as tutoring services
Company provided top-of-the-line tech resources and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, and office equipment.
Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones and laptops, gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums, healthy meal delivery programs or smoking cessation)
Casual dress code and inspiring, motivating office environment
Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion through efforts such as TT Women in Tech and a committee dedicated to making TT a great place to work for everyone.
Company Overview:Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes the Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.#J-18808-Ljbffr
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 a high and low-level design for concurrent high throughput, low-latency software architecture
Provide software development plans that meet the 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 as well as performance improvements
Analyze stack traces, core dumps, and production incident reports from traders and support teams
Propose fixes and 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 and run automated testing and unit testing
Design, develop, and program server-side software components
What Will You Bring to the Table?
A minimum of 5 years of extensive and proven development experience with C++ (ideally utilizing C++ 11 or higher)
Proficient with template and metaprogramming in general
Proficient in debugging methods and tools (GDB, Address Sanitizer, etc.)
Direct experience with object-oriented design skills
Proficient in multi-threaded applications with a focus on performance
Working knowledge of various IPC mechanisms
Experience developing components in a distributed system
Clean coding style with emphasis on readability
Familiarity with Git is a plus
Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP protocols is a plus
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements and working application code
Experience in the trading industry (specifically market data processing) and with industry protocols such as FIX/SBE/ITCH is strongly preferred
Experience with Linux operating systems is a plus
Knowledge of Python is a plus
Experience with automated testing and unit testing is a plus
Familiarity with agile/iterative development methodologies
Solid debugging and performance-tuning skills
What We Bring to the Table
Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, 401(k) and pre-tax transit/parking
Flexible work schedules – with some remote work
22 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents) and backup child care as well as tutoring services
Company provided top-of-the-line tech resources and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, and office equipment.
Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones and laptops, gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums, healthy meal delivery programs or smoking cessation)
Casual dress code and inspiring, motivating office environment
Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion through efforts such as TT Women in Tech and a committee dedicated to making TT a great place to work for everyone.
Company Overview:Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes the Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.#J-18808-Ljbffr