Backend Engineer - C++

Responsibilities include:

• Work with the R&D and application development teams to assist in design, prototype and implementation of next generation high-performance real time analytics solutions in the industry to scale with the business
• Assist the team in building out a market leading portfolio PL and Risk platform for latency critical processes with high visibility among trading teams as well as management teams.
• Work with different technologies to provide the state-of-the-art intraday analytics platforms used in various risk and portfolio management systems across the entire firm
• Contribute to application development and architecture of highly scalable real time platforms

Qualifications, Skills and Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in C++ application development on Linux along with good understanding of the Linux operating system.
• Experience writing and maintaining multi-threaded, multi-process and low-latency C++ along with profiling and optimizing platforms/jobs. Can write clean code with tests.
• Basic understanding of Computer Networking
• Experience with event driven architecture using message bus and caching technologies like Solace, Kafka, Pulsar, Memcached, Redis etc.
• Experience working with various monitoring tools like Datadog, ELK stack etc.
• Familiarity with Database technologies Advanced SQL, NoSQL, Time-series databases (KDB)
• Excellent grasp of data structures and algorithms and the ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly
• A strong interest in financial markets and a desire to work directly with investment professionals
• Good team player with a strong willingness to participate and help others
• Drive to learn and experiment