Software Engineer, C++
Flow Traders3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and global rollout of the Core platform for market data, quantitative research, pricing, and strategies.
- Develop and deploy tools and frameworks for tuning and data-driven systematic pricing and trading strategies.
- Collaborate with focus-group engineers, quants, and technical traders to refine requirements and iterate on platform design and implementation.
- Build exchange connectivity software that receives market data and sends orders using exchange APIs and network protocols.
- Use, maintain, and extend testing suites to ensure software quality.
- Optimize exchange communication through kernel bypass, TLS optimization, and connection handling improvements.
- Implement exchange solutions using exchange SDKs and languages including C++, Rust, Python, and TypeScript.
- Implement trading algorithms based on trader and quantitative researcher requirements.
- Improve the stability, reliability, performance, monitoring, and observability of the trading engine.
- Investigate and resolve production crashes, business-logic issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Prepare releases and deployments of new trading engine versions.
Requirements
- A BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent experience is required.
- At least 5 years of post-graduation professional C++ software development experience is required; proprietary trading experience is preferred.
- Strong ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable code is required.
- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures is required.
- Experience with parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming is required.
- Interest in maximizing performance from available hardware and software is required.
- Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical business colleagues is required.
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About Flow Traders
Founded in 2004, Flow Traders is a leading trading firm operating globally. Specialized in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), Flow Traders trades a broad range of asset classes, including digital assets and fixed income both on- and off-exchange. Our headquarters are in Amsterdam and we have offices in 10 locations worldwide, with more than 600 employees. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.