Senior Software Engineer
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Job Description
Positions: Senior C++ Low-Latency Market data engineer
Must Have: C++, lock-free / Wait-free, orderbook, Market Data, Solarflare / Mellanox, Low Latency code.
Role Summary
Join us at the start of a green-field initiative: the design and build of a new ultra-low-latency Market Data platform that will drive our next generation of real-time services. You will work on components where every microsecond matters, integrate binary exchange protocols, and contribute to a high-performance system focused on low latency, correctness, and reliability.
What You Will Do
- Design and develop core components of the low-latency Market Data platform.
- Implement and optimize feed handlers over TCP and multicast UDP binary protocols.
- Work with feeds such as ITCH, SBE, FAST, FIX, and venue-specific formats.
- Work on L1, L2, and L3 order-book construction, conflation, correlation, consolidated tapes, and replay pipelines.
- Optimize performance by focusing on:
- CPU cache hierarchies and memory locality
- NUMA-aware design and predictable execution
- Data-structure layout and allocation-free paths
- Branch prediction, prefetching, TLB behavior
- NIC tuning and kernel network stack optimization
- Build and maintain high test coverage, including latency regression and deterministic behavior tests.
- Validate correctness and quality of Market Data flows end-to-end.
- Perform profiling and instrumentation using eBPF, perf events, and flame graphs.
- Analyze binary protocol dumps and low-level hexdump traces for debugging.
- Deploy, test, and validate software in QA and Production environments.
- Participate in on-call and incident support once the platform is in production.
- Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
Experience
- 8+ years of professional experience with modern C++ (C++14/17/20).
- 5+ years working directly in Market Data or trading low-latency systems.
Nice to Have
- Understanding of hardware timestamps, PTP, and time-synchronization pipelines.
- Experience with Elastic, Grafana, Prometheus.
More Info
Key Skills
Solarflare
NUMA-aware design
L3 order-book
Elastic
ITCH
Low-Latency
multicast UDP
Mellanox
SBE
perf events
eBPF
flame graphs



