Position: C++ Developer (Derivatives background)
Location: is New York City on hybrid basis (1-2 days/week on site)
Duration: 6-12+ Months
Key skills : C++ on Linux, Derivatives background (Equities or Fixed Income), or at least work on a Trading Desk or Quant Desk , Murex FLEX api experience, DevOps Skills, experience in a Scrum environment (Jira/Agile)
Mid-level candidates needed (3-7 years’ experience ideal),
Responsibilities
Develop C++ libraries to integrate Quant pricing models into Murex FLEX API for equities and derivatives products.
Work in agile fashion with the rest of development team using scrum / jira.
Architect performant and resilient components which insulate the execution system from failures in the external pricing code.
Work with starts and quants to enable them to use your integration code.
Work with CICD team to create devops pipelines for your code, including containerization.
Develop additional components for monitoring of pricing libraries, and integration with future other pricing components (Java & Python)
Skills: Requirements and skills
Experienced 3-8 years of experience in C++ Experience developing real time distributed software systems in financial services.
Knowledge of the scrum agile framework
Experience with JIRA / Confluence
Experience building scalable computational distributed services
Experience with multiplatform enterprise service development and challenges of data serialization Experience with developing service wrappers for Python or C++ libraries
Building and interfacing with REST API (including Enterprise Authorization and Authentication) Enterprise services (including monitoring, state management)
Experience with Inter-process communication (IPC) such as Google protocol buffers or similar
Experience implementing a Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) process for C++ applications including dependency management and deployments to Linux environments (Jenkins, Sonar, Gitlab, etc)
Desirable skills and experience
Murex FLEX experience.
Experience working with Equities and Fixed Income electronic trading, market data and pricing is a plus.
Experience working with quantitative and trading teams is also a plus.
Experience with Java Messaging Services (Active MQ or similar)
Python skills are a plus.
Education: Bachelor’s degree