C++ Developer - Trading systems

Company Description

Talan is an international consulting group in innovation and transformation through technology. For 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations. The group supports them and implements their transformation and innovation projects internationally.

Present on five continents, the group plans to achieve a turnover of 600 million euros in 2023 for more than 6,000 consultants and aims to exceed the one billion € turnover mark by 2025. The group puts innovation at the heart of its development and intervenes in areas related to the technological changes of large groups, such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, Web3, Metaverse, Blockchain or IoT.

By placing the “humanistic practice of technology” at the center of its strategy, the Talan Group is convinced that it is by being at the service of humans that technology multiplies its potential for 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 Trading Systems. The ideal candidate will have expertise in C++ awill have to the best possible production-capable environment for our client application support trading system team.

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!

Responsibilities

Provide the best possible production-capable environment for the application support trading system team, including all Data Center operations, business continuity set-up, application development, deployment, and support. Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Design & Development:
  • Interaction with traders and quantitative researchers: Analyze new ideas and requirements for developments
  • Maintenance, and 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
  • IT Infra teams to ensure proper functioning of all devices: servers, firewalls, switches, database, filer, market- and inter-colo connectivity)
  • Operations to ensure proper accounting of the desk's positions: feed booking and other Back-Office systems
  • Compliance teams to understand the impact of regulations on the trading platform

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Experience: 2 - 5 years of relevant industry experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline required, Masters preferred
• Ability to quickly resolve issues under pressure
• Strong technical & problem-solving (troubleshooting) skills.
  • C++
  • Real-time and multi-threaded programming
  • Low-level understanding of Linux
  • Network programming: socket, TCP/IP
  • SQL, Oracle PL/SQL
  • Scripting (Python, csh, bash)
• Excellent oral communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of Finance is a plus but not a requirement (Financial maths, quantitative models)
• Knowledge of multi-core architectures
• Libraries: ACE, BOOST, Qt
• DevOps and Continuous Delivery, JUnit, Gradle, Git, quality and profiling tools
• Java Swing

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

The salary range for this role is US$85,000 - US$120,000

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

Additional Information

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