The Job

📍Develop C++ applications that connect to crypto currency exchanges and cryptocurrency protocols and provide normalised exchange access to our auto trading applications 📍Become a domain expert in 2-3 exchange systems / cryptocurrency protocols. Apply this expertise to improve the trading performance of our own systems and/or to request improvements to exchange systems 📍Be accountable for the deployment, monitoring and management of connectivity solutions for the exchanges you’ve become an expert in. Help troubleshoot other exchange connectivity as required 📍Optimise applications for microsecond latencies and efficient utilisation of scant messaging bandwidth 📍Help engineer internally developed middleware and messaging protocols, improving reliability, scalability, throughput and latency 📍Collaborate with traders and strategy Developers to analyse logs and build tools to assist in the analysis of execution performance 📍Develop ancillary trading system infrastructure in python as required 📍Create tools to automate the configuration, deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting of trading system components 📍Engage with the team during system design discussions, code reviews, trading idea brainstorms and daily office banter.

Skills required:

📍A software engineer with 3+ years experience in developing clean, maintainable and performantcode in C++ on linux 📍Experience profiling C++ code with any of cachegrind, valgrind or other profiling tools 📍A thorough understanding of network programming: UDP, TCP, TLS, Websockets 📍Bonus points will be awarded to candidates who have developed websocket execution for any of the top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges and who can articulate the challenges they faced 📍You can find the balance between delivering clean, testable, reliable code and rapidly deploying new system features to take advantage of market opportunities 📍You are reliable, take pride in delivering robust software and are willing to be on call to support the systems you develop