10 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$120k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-performance C++ systems for a greenfield market data feed application.
- Build scalable, low-latency components for real-time market data processing.
- Develop UDP/TCP network connectivity, including multicast.
- Implement and integrate ITCH, PITCH, and OUCH financial market data protocols.
- Build market data processing and order book components.
- Design concurrent, thread-safe systems focused on latency, throughput, and reliability.
- Profile, benchmark, and optimize performance-critical code using network and systems programming techniques.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of C++ backend development experience.
- Strong C++ programming and object-oriented design fundamentals, including familiarity with C++23 or the latest C++17 features.
- Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Experience building performance-sensitive or real-time systems is highly preferred.
Benefits
- Six-month consulting opportunity with the possibility of extension up to 12 months.
- Hybrid NYC work arrangement requiring at least four days onsite per week, Monday through Thursday.
- Salary between USD $120,000 and $150,000.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
- 15 days of paid vacation at hire, increasing to up to 27 days according to seniority, with unused vacation days cashed out.
- Eight paid holidays, five sick days, and two personal days per year.
- Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans plus FSA.
- Voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Commuter and transit benefits.
About Talan
Talan is a Paris‑headquartered, privately held consulting and technology group that delivers data, AI, and IT services to large enterprises. It combines management consulting with systems integration, software engineering, and production support across sectors such as banking and financial services, energy, transport, retail, and healthcare. The firm operates internationally and supports clients’ end‑to‑end change programs, from CRM and agile transformations to architecture, application development, and run.