C/C++ Engineer

Project description

Our client is a leading global Financial market data provider who runs a number of programs to deliver high-quality software that connects Financial Markets across the globe in a real-time, high-frequency, and low-latency data management chain.

Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will combine strong technical and collaboration skills in a demanding and dynamic environment. You will work directly with your team and with groups across the organisation to ensure the best service for our client base. You will be a member of a multi-skilled team building and maintaining components for our market leading our system. We strive for our engineers to work within agile teams that emphasize standard process and believe quality is everyone's responsibility. They bring an enthusiastic attitude whilst making sure they share their knowledge while removing constraints.
• Modernising the build system, including consolidation of Make files and migration to CMake or Bazel.
• Enhancing CI/CD processes with faster build times, robust pipelines, and reliable nightly builds.
• Modernising C/C++ through the adoption of STL, modern memory management, modern threading, and the GCC C+ compiler.
• Assessing existing scheduling approaches and proposing cloud native alternatives.
• Decomposing a monolithic architecture into defined, modular components with clear interfaces.
• Decoupling databases and RPC dependencies and recommending Azure aligned services and patterns.
• Defining a scalable and resilient distribution model, including container scale out, data locality, routing, and resilience.
• Enabling deployment to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Integrating and connecting existing data sources within the modernised architecture. The candidates will work from the offices in New York or London.
• Compensation: London 115-125K GBP Gross/Year; New York 160-180K USD Gross/Year.

SKILLS Must have

• Dedicated, goal-oriented, with good communication skills
• Ability to solve complex problems
• Strong object-oriented programming skills
• 7+ years of experience with C/C++
• Experience with Linux environment and shell scripting
• Experience with Python development
• Knowledge of GIT, CVS
• Knowledge of software delivery process (CI/CD/CT, Agile methodologies)

Nice to have

• Azure