Job Purpose
We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead with deep expertise in C programming and extensive experience building,
enhancing, and modernizing trading platforms within Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) environments. The ideal
candidate combines strong hands-on engineering capability with architecture leadership, system design expertise, and a proven track
record of optimizing high-performance, low-latency applications used by front-office trading businesses.
This role will drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, platform modernization, performance tuning, and engineering excellence
across mission-critical trading systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and development of complex trading and market-facing platforms.
- Define system architecture, scalability, resilience, and performance strategies for business-critical applications.
- Drive modernization of legacy trading systems while ensuring business continuity and platform stability.
- Partner with traders, quants, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust
technical solutions.
- Lead performance engineering initiatives including latency reduction, capacity optimization, memory management, and
concurrency design.
- Establish engineering standards, architecture principles, design reviews, and code quality practices.
- Mentor senior developers and provide technical leadership across distributed teams.
- Support production stability, root-cause analysis, and continuous platform improvement initiatives..
Key competencies
- Strong hands-on development experience in C (mandatory).
- Strong experience in C++ and/or C# (preferred).
- Deep understanding of:
- System Design & Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Event-Driven Architectures
- Multithreading & Concurrency
- High-Performance Computing
- Network Programming
- Memory Management & Optimization
- Performance Profiling & Latency Analysis
Domain Experience
- Strong experience within Capital Markets, preferably FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities).
- Experience working on:
- Trading Platforms
- Market Data Systems
- Order Management & Execution Systems
- Pricing & Risk Platforms
- Low-Latency Transaction Processing Systems
- Understanding of Fixed Income products, trading workflows, market data, pricing and trade lifecycle processes.
