Senior Software Engineer C++/python - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our team
We are a newly formed team with presence in both our London and New York offices.

Our team designs and builds scalable infrastructure and tools to ingest trading data from several different asset classes such as Fixed Income, FX and Equity into a trade storebased on PostgreSQL/Citus.

We already store more than 8 years' worth of trading data and process more than a million events on average every day On top of the ingestion framework, we develop a data toolkit that will allow internal and external clients toquery and analyse their trading data, compile reports or test trading models.

We collaborate closely with other teams in the larger Electronic Trading department and work daily with our business counterparts to move the platform forward and influence its direction.

We are dedicated to sharing our knowledge regularly and to creating acollaborative environment.

What's in it for you?:

Most of our system is written in C++ and Python on Linux and the occasional UI work is done in JavaScript.
We put emphasis on doing things right, so you'll be using industry best practices for testing, automation, and CI/CD (CMake, Google Tests, Pytest, Jenkins, Git etc.).
We own the full development process from gathering requirements to testing, rollouts, and maintenance.
We rely heavily on database technologies such as PostgreSQL/Citus, Greenplum and internal database solutions (recently open sourced Comdb2)
We provide Jupyter notebooks as a sandbox for our users
We work with Kafka and similar internal message queuing solutions
We use Splunk, Humio and Grafana for log collection, dashboards and alarming

We'll trust you to:

Work closely with our Product partners to flesh out requirements and collaborate with other Engineering groups
Design, build and release new features to our clients whilst keeping the system as stable as ever
Always keep in mind scalability when developing solutions
Be a key contributor to the team, drive the incorporation of new technologies, improve development practices and share your knowledge to drive the growth of the team
Be creative to solve highly complex problems while understanding the scope and impact of your work

You'll need to have:

Expertise in C++ and/or Python
An aptitude for problem solving, and a desire to build software solutions to complex business problems with experience getting involved in the full software development lifecycle
Experience managing projects or working with multiple stakeholders to deliver business value
A team player attitude and collaborative approach to development
Commitment to building quality software through tests
Passion to drive technology and product evolution
Good communication skills to work with other teams and explain technical problems to nontechnical stakeholders
An open mind to using new technologies

We'd love to see:

Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Citus, Greenplum
Expertise in profiling and improving performance
Experience working with a distributed system and an understanding of its unique challenges
Experience with high volume, high availability distributed systems
Experience with messaging queues
Experience with data science frameworks and libraries

Interview process
We want to ensure you can put your best foot forward throughout the process, so if you have any questions or need any accommodations to be successful, please let us know