C++ Team Lead in City of London

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. An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Team Lead C++. My client is a well-established exchange (FinTech, Financial Technology) based in the City. They are working with some cutting-edge technologies, this is an excellent opportunity to join an innovative, forward-thinking company within the FinTech / Financial services space.

The successful candidate will join a supportive team, where my client aims to recruit the best people from all walks of life and diverse business backgrounds. If these sentiments align with your thinking, then my client could be the ideal place for you to develop your career.

Benefits (not exhaustive list):

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave - not including bank holiday
• 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

My client is an 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 Development 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.

As a Team Lead C++, it is also important to demonstrate:

• Responsibility and experience on being a tech lead on a project.
• Willingness to drive a project forward when required.
• Gatekeeper of the integrity of the system, ensuring the platform is not compromised by implementation or ill-formed product requests.
• Experience working with other non-technical departments and ability to explain complex technical ideas to a non-technical audience.

Required Skills/Experience:

• 15 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.
• Most importantly, a drive to solve complex technological and trading problematics with a great team of talented developers.

Desired 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.
• 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.