Core Developer

About the Company A leading global financial technology firm leveraging cutting-edge technology to provide liquidity to global financial markets and deliver innovative trading solutions to clients.

With a strong focus on market structure, diversification and execution technology, the business provides competitive bids and offers across thousands of securities and hundreds of trading venues globally.

The Role

We are looking for a Core Developer to join the Software Development team and contribute to the development of a high-performance trading system deployed across financial marketplaces worldwide.

The Core Development team focuses on the design and development of the trading system's core order management protocol, internal messaging and processing, as well as connectivity to external trading destinations.

This is a highly technical engineering role suited to someone who enjoys working with high-performance, low-latency and high-transaction systems.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop components of the trading system's core order management protocol

Develop and maintain high-performance internal messaging and processing systems

Build and enhance connectivity to external trading destinations

Work on systems operating in high-transaction and low-latency environments

Contribute to distributed and highly concurrent systems

Analyse and optimise system and computer performance

Work closely with engineering teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Key Requirements

Strong proficiency in modern C++ programming

Extensive experience developing in a Linux environment

Strong understanding of complex networking infrastructure, including TCP and UDP

Strong understanding of computer performance analysis

Experience programming in high-transaction and/or low-latency systems

Experience with distributed and/or highly concurrent systems is advantageous

Genuine interest in trading and financial markets

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment