C Senior Developer (W2 Only)
Visa: US Citizen Green Card
Location: Cary NC (Onsite role Local candidate only)
Length: 6 Months
Client Note: Candidates must have recent investment banking or financial exp.
Mode of interview: First round technical phone screen followed with face to face or a video
Business Description:
- Quantum is an ultra low latency (ULL) trading platform which is both an algorithmic trading container and a source of market data and order execution services to many businesses which is the fastest in the Bank.
- Quantums principal customers include FX Commodities Rates Credit and Equities.
- Quantum team is currently focused on a top profile project for Cash Equity business to build out a new market data feeds and book building for the US and EMEA markets delivering data to SOR and other components with minimal possible latency.
Position Description:
- The team is looking for a highly skill C engineer to work on build out of new Cash Equity market data and book building solution.
The role responsibilities include:
- Coding and analysis tasks relating to ULL feed / order handlers publishers and the framework for several highprofile releases a year
- Taking endtoend responsibility for particular tasks from analyzing detailed requirements with the business to design and implementation.
- Working as an integral part of smalldistributed team (10) of focused engineers. Good communication skills to work effectively with team members in NY London and Moscow.
- Extra diligence on code quality and performance from basics like unit testing to comprehensive performance optimization and hardware tuning.
- Ability and readiness to take nondev work when required: requirements analysis deployment automation testing automation etc.
Technical Skills:
- Minimum 35 years work experience as C developer
- Advanced knowledge of multithreading in Linux
- Strong knowledge of networking
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Expert in C 11 Must
- Experience in market data and order entry protocols: FIX ITCH
- Experience on network protocols e.g. multicast
- Experience of a middleware messaging platform must e.g. LBM
- Experience of lowlatency programming
Education:
- B.Sc. in a technical field
Professional Experience:
- 3 years experience
- Experience in algorithmic trading applications is a must
- Knowledge of market data / order entry a must
- Knowledge of Equity Rates or FX products is a must
Require Competencies:
- Good communication skills delivery oriented
Ability to work under pressure and respond quickly to changing circumstances.