What are the responsibilities and job description for the C++ Software Engineer (multi-threading low level development is a must) position at Quanta Search?
Our client is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Their fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
They are looking for strong C Engineers to help build
out their next-generation technologies in many different areas of the
firm including Execution, Exchange Connectivity, Platform, and
Research & Data Engineering. In these areas you will be involved in
projects that have direct and meaningful impact on firm's daily
performance. In our fast-paced team environment, their engineers can
quickly see the results of their effort, and the impact that work has
on businesses.
In areas like Execution, you will work with traders to build new
execution strategies and enhance existing ones. In Platform
Engineering, you may be building out a robust common framework library
for the firm or building messaging API’s for developing distributed,
real-time trading systems.
As a C Engineer, you must also have a broad
and deep understanding of software engineering concepts, sharp
software development skills, and excellent communication and
collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
Partner with the firmwide safety committee to ensure the platform is
operationally safe and sound
Understand requirements, propose solutions, and deliver software into
the production environment in a timely and robust manner
Foster collaboration with other teams including operations, option
pricing, exchange access, inventory and risk management, and quality
assurance
Qualifications
2 years of experience working in a production environment using
modern C , knowledge of C 20 preferred
Some, but not all areas require experience with low latency
development and performance investigation tools
Ability to quickly triage issues and drive the resolution effort
through completion
Experience with multi-threaded programming and distributed application
architecture