Senior Software Engineer C++

This is a hybrid role: 3 days remote and 2 days in the office. Our client actively encourages diversity, equality and inclusion within its workforce and welcomes applications from a diverse background. REC Solutions Limited does not discriminate in regards to age, gender, national origin, religion or any other basis.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Senior Software Engineer C++ to join a friendly team. The client is a well-established exchange based in the City. They are working with cutting edge technologies and offer an innovative, forward-thinking environment within FinTech / Financial services.

The successful candidate will join a supportive team with a focus on recruiting the best people from diverse backgrounds. If these sentiments align with your thinking, this could be an ideal place to develop your career.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave - not including bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Company pension
• Group Policies Life Assurance, Income Protection and Critical Illness
• Discretionary bonus
• Share Incentive Plan
• Electric Car Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policy
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Length of service holiday entitlement

Equal-opportunities employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Job Overview

In this role you will work with the Product team, Infrastructure team, and QA team to produce high performance, low latency and highly reliable code. Your goal will be to develop software which can handle large amounts of TPS to drive a highly efficient technology used by several markets around the world, including our own.

To be successful in this role as a Senior Software Engineer C++, you will be a proponent of agile methodology and modern software best practices. You can produce detailed technical work in OOP and work with other members of the Development team to produce code of high-quality standards. Ideally, you should have worked in critical systems development in the past.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Codes, tests, integrates, and documents software.
• Provides technical leadership to more junior employees and other teams.
• Apply principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex products.
• Participate as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems.
• Work on the hardest technical problems facing the company, often these problems are unusually complex and require the utmost creativity and innovation.
• Apply and champion the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products.
• Keep abreast of technology trends and champion new ideas and process improvements.

Required Skills/Experience

• 8 years development experience in >= C++11 and Boost creating performant, scalable applications.
• Exposure to real-time systems.
• 5+ years of experience in networking (UDP, Multicasting, TCP, etc...), messaging, and algorithms.
• 5+ years of experience on Linux systems.
• Good understanding of modern development best practices and methodologies.
• Python.
• Git.
• SQL.
• Knowledge of capital markets technologies, protocols, and standards such as FIX and SBE.
• Drive to solve complex technological and trading problems with a great team of developers.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Questdb
• Dolt Mindset and Methodology

This role involves working with a sophisticated and specialised platform. New joiners invest time in understanding the architecture and domain before making changes to the most critical components. We are looking for someone who enjoys deep learning and is keen to build long-term expertise to take on greater ownership and impact.

Good team player. Autonomous. Good understanding of modern development best practices and methodologies. Comfortable using Agile methodology, including continuous integration, sprints, Jira and the relevant processes and workflow.