C++ Developer - Contract

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Job description

This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a large multi-asset eTrading development team.

A successful candidate is expected to:

• Design, build and implement pricing systems.
• Work with teams spread across infrastructure, development, support, test and the Front Office.
• Participate in the development of all aspects of product delivery including design documents, functional specifications and component building.
• Make contributions to the evolving architecture.
• Conduct issue and risk identification, management and resolution.

This is a key position which will play pivotal role in the development of the FX platform.

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Take responsibility for the system component design and development.
• Ensure developed code has significant coverage by automated tests.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Adhere to SCB development practices.
• Manage application support handover to global teams.
• Maintain and enhance the code base after project go-live.
• Build relationships with teams inside/outside FM, Infrastructure units etc.
• Advocate delivery excellence, ensuring application release quality.

Qualifications/Skills:

• C+/17 skills, knowledge of the STL, experience of the Boost libraries is highly desirable.
• Development on Linux using gcc, gdb, git and associated debugging tools.
• Knowledge of all aspects of software design, development and deployment.
• Working knowledge of FX products, pricing and Real Time risk management.
• Working knowledge of the design of scalable, high availability, supportable distributed architectures.
• Working knowledge of messaging and communication protocols including TCP, UDP, multicast, and data encoding
• Working understanding of SQL and simple DDL operations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to interact with business representatives.

Desirable but not essential:

• Experience of any of: multi-threading, low-latency, high-throughput, high-resiliency applications
• Familiarity with Middleware messaging frameworks, ideally Solace