Senior Engineer, Public Markets Technology

You will work as a Senior Engineer in Public Markets Technology, partnering with CPP Investments’ traders, investment professionals and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post trade activities. You will be responsible for hands on development and maintenance of solutions covering a number of asset classes including equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.

Through close partnership with investment professionals and operations, you will see firsthand how your software is impacting trade activities and delivering long-term value to the CPP Fund for the benefit of 20 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries.

The Opportunity:

• Work in collaboration with CPP Investments’ trading professionals, operations and technology teams to design and build solutions enabling trade activities across a number of asset classes including futures, equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.

• Collaborate with team members to conceptualize, design and develop new software applications. Applications may be server-side enterprise solutions, GUI, or highly customized solutions developed for the specific needs of a business partner.

• Create solutions tailored to business requirements aligned with the long-term architecture and technology strategy using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Cloud development.

• Maintain and improve existing applications to support trading functions.

• Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.

• Prepare and document design and program specifications.

• Manage timelines/deliverables towards the successful delivery of projects.

• Develop the right IT behaviors to enable building scalable solutions within predictable time frames.

• Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation.

• Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.

• Other duties as assigned.

If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.

• Strong interest in capital markets and eagerness to contribute to the systems that support portfolio management activities.

• Knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.

• Experience in C++ and Python, or a keen interest to learn, SQL and passion to keep up-to-date in technology.

• Knowledge of technologies for Cloud development. Experience working with AWS is preferred.

• Experience in FIX protocol is a bonus.

• Passion to expand your domain knowledge both on the job and through continued education.

• Commitment to CPP investments’ guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.