Tech Stack
LinuxC++
Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
We are seeking a Senior C++ Developer with Market Data experience to join our team in New York City, optimizing high performance systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain high performance C++ services handling high message rates and low latency workloads.
- Optimize existing components for latency, throughput, and CPU/memory efficiency.
- Develop and tune networking, messaging, and I/O layers to handle large data volumes reliably.
- Profile and debug performance issues at application, OS, and network levels.
- Collaborate with quantitative, trading, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Write clean, production quality code with appropriate tests and documentation.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
Requirements
Must have
- Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20 or later)
- Hands-on experience with Market Data
- Solid understanding of concurrency and synchronization (lock free / low lock patterns, atomics, memory models, etc.)
- Proven experience building performance critical, real time, or low latency systems (e.g., networking, trading systems, telemetry, gaming engines, or similar).
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory management, and optimization.
- Practical experience with Linux systems programming (sockets, epoll/select, threads, memory management, CPU affinity, etc.).
- Experience using profiling, benchmarking, and performance analysis tools (e.g., perf, valgrind, flame graphs, CPU/memory profilers).
- Proficiency with version control (Git) and standard build systems (CMake, Ninja, etc.).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail; ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Nice to have
- Experience with kernel bypass or user space networking technologies (e.g., DPDK, RDMA, VMA, Solarflare/OpenOnload)
- Experience in financial markets, market data distribution, order routing, or exchange connectivity.
- Familiarity with common market data protocols (e.g., FIX, MDP, ITCH, proprietary exchange feeds) is a plus.
- Experience with multicast, low latency networking, and clock synchronization (e.g., PTP).
- Exposure to hardware aware optimization (NUMA, cache optimization, vectorization/SIMD, CPU pinning).
- Experience with monitoring/telemetry for high performance systems (latency histograms, throughput metrics, SLAs).
- Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for tooling and automation.
- Data Analysis with python (pytorch, pandas, arrow)
We Offer
- Competitive salary: $140,000 - $200,000 USD Gross per year based on the interview process results.
- Relocation friendly
About the Company
Join our team in New York City and contribute to designing and building high performance, low latency applications that process large volumes of real-time data.