C++ Software Engineer – Trading platform

Company Description

With 7,000+ experts in 20 countries, Talan is a global consulting and tech group helping businesses innovate and grow through AI, Data, and Blockchain. Certified Great Place To Work, we’re aiming for €1B revenue by 2025.

At Talan, we believe in Positive Innovation — using technology to serve people and society.

Job Description

Are you looking to join a company at the forefront of innovation and transformation? Look no further than Talan!

We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our team and work on Derivatives IT projects. The ideal candidate will have expertise in C++ and be passionate about developing new features on Trade and Market Access Platforms.

As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and collaborate with a dynamic group of professionals who are dedicated to excellence. You will have the chance to contribute to the development of our Finance engineering team and grow your career in a stimulating environment.

If you are a skilled Software Engineer with a passion for finance and technology, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us and take your career to the next level!

Role and responsibilities

• Design & Development:
  • Interaction with traders and quantitative researchers: Analyze new ideas and requirements for development
  • Maintenance, improvement of trading application: New features, algorithms, enhancement of existing applications, optimization for speed, bug corrections.
  • Implement algorithms in line with Compliance and Regulations (e.g. RegNMS, RegSHO, etc.)
• Support:
  • Monitoring: ensure that the trading platform is stable and works properly (scripts, batches, applications and infrastructure).
  • Maintenance: adapt, improve, stabilize and automate the platform; help reduce the human factor and the number of manual interventions.
  • Assistance to the users (traders and researchers).
• Interaction with Market Access teams to ensure proper quote reception and order sending capabilities.
• Interaction with IT Infra teams to ensure proper functioning of all devices: servers, firewalls, switches, database, filer, market- and inter-colo connectivity
• Interaction with Operations to ensure proper accounting of the desk’s positions: feed booking and other Back-Office systems.
• Interaction with compliance teams to understand the impact of regulations on trading platform.

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Qualifications

• + 5 years relevant industry experience.
• Bachelor in Computer Science or related discipline required.
• Strong technical & problem solving (troubleshooting) skills.
  • Real-time and multi-threaded programming.
  • Network programming
  • SQL, Oracle PL/SQL.
  • Scripting (Python, csh, bash).
• Excellent oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge in Finance a plus but not a requirement.
• Knowledge of multi-core architectures.
• Libraries: ACE, BOOST, QT
• Masters preferred.
• DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Jenkins, JUnit, Gradle, Git

The salary range for this role is US$80,000 – US$150,000

Company’s Benefits

At Talan, we invest in our employees’ well-being and empower them with benefits, including:

• 💵 Competitive salary
• 💸401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• 🌴15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
• 📴8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
• ❤️‍🩹Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
• 🦺Voluntary STD and LTD
• 🚍 Commuter/transit benefits

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.