Lead Software Engineer - Market Data and Execution Technology

A global Quantitative Hedge Fund is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join their global front office technology department in a new greenfield project to revolutionize their execution and market data platforms. You will play a pivotal role in architecting and developing multiple scalable, high performing market data feeds, execution platforms and order management systems across multiple asset classes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and design of the next generation execution and market data systems, delivering a scalable high-throughput, low-latency platform.
• Act as the product owner on the development of new in-house market data feed handlers and related systems.
• Highly optimized market access & market data solutions, focused on reliable, deterministic event streams to power quantitative research.
• Partner with traders, quants and other senior stakeholders to understand the most important problems to guide how and where they can innovate.

Requirements:

• Years of advanced experience working with modern C on bare metal operating system (C 17 as a minimum) and Python as a secondary language.
• Years of experience working at a asset manager, systematic broker, market maker, HFT or a top tier investment bank.
• Strong understanding of TCP, UDP, IPV4 and related hardware/software
• Proven experience building distributed systems on a global basis and writing scalable multi-threaded software/applications.
• Strong understanding of real-time market data feeds and FIX protocol applications from an algorithmic trading perspective.
• Great architecture, design and implementation skills with a strong understanding of distributed, concurrent, or parallel systems.

Excellent opportunity with a high-performing trading team rewarding package on offer with high growth career progression. For a confidential conversation, please reach out to: lcouronne@algocapitalgroup.com.