C++ DEVELOPER - MARKET DATA - LONDON - £85K + BONUS (Hybrid Working)

C++ DEVELOPER - MARKET DATA - LONDON - £85K + BONUS (Hybrid Working)

We are looking for a Senior Developer with experience of market data to build and maintain data parsers that ingest and process market data and reference data, improve processes and reliability for managing these large datasets, and become an expert in understanding the data and the way we curate and process it.

The majority of our data processing code is written in C++, and Python is used extensively in orchestrating workflows and managing reference data.

You will join a team of around 12 existing developers of varying experience levels, split roughly into 3 units covering Equities, Derivatives and data processing infrastructure.

This is an opportunity to join a cutting-edge FinTech company with the potential to grow your technical, finance and cloud- & data-engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Owning the full scope of assigned development projects such as data parsers, including liaising with the business to gather requirements, designing the solution with the team, and building and delivering completed functionality to production
• Planning and leading small projects, which may be cross-team
• Delivering new data parsers and other data generation processes, primarily in C++, with an emphasis on quality and reliability
• Understanding the data, how it reaches the company, how we process it and deliver it to customers
• Communicating with technical teams both within the company and sometimes at data providers such as financial exchanges
• Some second-line support of the daily parsing processes and the data, shared amongst the team

Requirements

Essential:

• Experience of working with equities or derivatives market data from financial exchanges. This is a must-have for this role.
• Industry experience of writing production-level C++ and delivering functioning, well-tested systems
• Demonstrated ability to plan and lead small projects
• Industry experience of developing on a Linux platform
• Industry experience of Python development
• Experience of industry-standard development methodologies such as source code control, unit testing and continuous integration
• Ability to self-organise and deliver a project over a period of up to a few months
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills
• Computer science or other STEM degree

This is an excellent opportunity to join a company who have recently secured huge investment with opportunities for career development. For more information and a full job description, please contact Ben Turner at BRT Consulting.