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Senior Software Engineer

 

Website Trading Technologies

Futures Trading Platform

We are currently seeking driven and talented Software Engineers who thrive on pushing the limits of technology to produce state of the art trading applications. TT’s platform is the front-end screen of choice for professional derivatives traders around the world. As a Software Engineer you will work on our award-winning trading platform which incorporates robust, high-performance tools for spread trading, strategy creation, algorithmic and automated trading, black-box execution, high-frequency proximity-based trading and more.

 

Key Responsibilities
  • Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture
  • Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
  • Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
  • Perform memory, cpu and resource management
  • Analyze stack traces, memory profiles and production incident reports from traders and support teams
  • Propose fixes, enhancements to existing trading systems
  • Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management.
  • Work on a team building new solutions based on requirements and features
  • Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings

 

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems
  • Proficiency in JavaScript with a minimum of five years of direct experience in team-based development
  • Experience with multi-threaded browser
  • Familiarity of server development and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technologies
  • Strong object oriented code design understanding
  • SOLID design patterns
  • Familiarity with agile/iterative development methodologies
  • Experience developing on large scale systems
  • Solid debugging and performance tuning skills

 

Benefits
  • Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 
  • Flexible work schedules – with hybrid work – the expectation of 2 days on-site
  • 21 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, 1 day per year available for volunteering, 2 Training days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development, 1 additional PTO day added during milestone year, a robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, and generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents) 
  • Tech resources, including, a “rent-to-own” program where employees are eligible for a company-provided Mac/PC laptop and/or mobile phone of their choice; and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, office equipment, etc.
  • Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives 
  • Milestone anniversary bonuses
  • Forward-thinking, a culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.

Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.

Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.

To apply for this job please visit tradingtechnologies.pinpointhq.com