A leading investment bank with an unrivalled reputation in Equities Prop trading in areas such as Statistical Arbitrage, Algorithmic Trading, High Frequency and Automated Trading have an outstanding opportunity for an experienced C++ Sofware Engineer to join their IT team in cash Equities.
Sitting directly on the Proprietary Trading desk you will be involved in the re-design of the application framework from scratch and support the business in a fast-paced environment. Interacting with traders on a daily basis you will be responsible for all aspects of the Software Design lifecycle and will be responsible as a team to design a system that is performance oriented and rock solid to support the Algo trading business.
You will need;
* Good practical experience of software engineering. This will ideally be from outside the financial industry. Candidates from Research, R&D for Telecoms, major software houses are of particular interest. Candidates with Financial backgrounds will be considered if you have exceptional C++ development experience * Excellent software development skills with commercial or research background.
Technical Skills
* Excellent C++/Unix/Linux plus Python, Perl, Ruby or Haskell being ideal. * Java/C# considered but C++ is mandatory * Unix/Linux at configuration level, file systems, IPC, system internals * Ability to diagnose network related issues with IP, TCP, UDP, broad/multicast & network bandwidth, distribution of CPU power * Software Design - understand high level requirements - OOD, UML etc * Debugging & diagnostic on UNIX - (gdb, truss/strace, sotruss, snoop/tcpdump) * Preference for experience of public domain C++ components and algorithm libraries (Boost, ACE) but this could be from commercial or academic projects
This is great opportunity to transfer you excellent technical skills into Investment Banking and learn about Equities and the Trading Business. You will utilise your strong software engineering skills to optimise the trading systems to give competitive advantage in the markets.
Excellent communication skills in English needed.(Orgtel Ltd acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business)
