Senior C++ Developer 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 Senior C++ Developer to join a friendly team; my client is a well-established exchange based in the City. They are working with some cutting-edge technologies, making this 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 handles large amounts of TPS to drive a highly efficient technology used by several markets around the world.

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 creativity and innovation.
• Apply and champion the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle.
• Keep abreast of technology trends and champion new ideas and process improvements.

Required Skills/Experience:

• C++ 5+ years development experience in C++ >=11 and Boost creating performance, scalable applications.
• Exposure to real-time systems.
• Python
• Git

Mindset:

• Patience and willingness to commit for the long term (2y+).
• Good team player personality.
• 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.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• 1+ years of experience on Linux systems.
• SQL
• Knowledge of capital markets exchange connectivity on stocks (fixed income and derivatives is a plus).

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Knowledge of capital markets exchange connectivity on fixed income and derivatives.
• Exchange protocols such as FIX and SBE.
• Some understanding and usage of cloud technology is a plus but not mandatory.