C++ Software Developer (Exchange Connectivity)
Full time
at SilverStrand Executive Search Limited
in
Hong Kong
Posted on May 8, 2024
Job details
- Develop C++ applications that connect to crypto currency exchanges and cryptocurrency protocols and provide normalised exchange access to our auto trading applications
- Become a domain expert in 2-3 exchange systems cryptocurrency protocols. Apply this expertise to improve the trading performance of our own systems and/or to request improvements to exchange systems
- Be accountable for the deployment, monitoring and management of connectivity solutions for the exchanges you’ve become an expert in. Help troubleshoot other exchange connectivity as required
- Optimise applications for microsecond latencies and efficient utilisation of scant messaging bandwidth
- Help engineer internally developed middleware and messaging protocols, improving reliability, scalability, throughput and latency
- Collaborate with traders and strategy Developers to analyse logs and build tools to assist in the analysis of execution performance
- Develop ancillary trading system infrastructure in python as required
- Create tools to automate the configuration, deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting of trading system components
- Engage with the team during system design discussions, code reviews, trading idea brainstorms and daily office banter.
- A software engineer with 3+ years experience in developing clean, maintainable and performant code in C++ on linux
- Experience profiling C++ code with any of cachegrind, valgrind or other profiling tools
- A thorough understanding of network programming: UDP, TCP, TLS, Websockets
- Bonus points will be awarded to candidates who have developed websocket execution for any of the top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges and who can articulate the challenges they faced
- You can find the balance between delivering clean, testable, reliable code and rapidly deploying new system features to take advantage of market opportunities
- You are reliable, take pride in delivering robust software and are willing to be on call to support the systems you develop
- Experience with high transaction, latency optimised, distributed systems
- Experience configuring and monitoring Linux machines
- Experience with inter process messaging using shared memory
- Experience with cloud computing infrastructure such as AWS
- Experience developing high performance exchange connectivity software, for market making in traditional markets.
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