Senior Low Latency Software Engineer - C++

About Vallum Associates

Vallum Associates is supporting a major sell side investment bank in New York to build out their Equities business.

• Associate Director
• New York based
• $225,000 base + package ($325,000 total comp)
• Candidates should have experience working in Equities/Equity Derivatives

What is the opportunity?

Our clients Cap Markets Technology team is seeking a strong Senior Low Latency Engineer (Associate Director) to develop multi-asset trading infrastructure utilizing C++, low-latency messaging and high performance data structures.

What will you do?

• Design and implement services for trading such as market data, order management, messaging layer, security reference data systems, position keeping systems, and services for user interfaces (C++, Python)
• Work with their quants, traders, and other stakeholders to design, implement and test technology used in trading
• Participate in DevOps (continuous integration pipeline, code quality tools, release methodologies)
• Maintain, enhance, and refactor the existing trading and execution systems and services.
• In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with our clients partners and/or employees located across US & Europe

Key Experience required for the role:

Must-have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of experience building highly performant, low-latency systems on Linux platform
• Proficient in C++ programming. Must have ability to use the right construct for the problem and ability to determine the appropriate C++ construct when building code.
• Knowledge of the Standard Template Library (STL), multi-threaded programming and unit testing in C++
• Experience in scripting and database query coding is required
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to work in fast-paced environments delivering quality solutions.

Nice-to-have

• Familiarity with data-oriented design principles