Senior C++ Developer

Job Purpose

ICE Data Services, located at Sancroft, London is seeking a Senior Developer to join our team of talented, creative and dedicated professionals working to support exchange and contributor data feeds on a low latency real time ticker plant.

The senior developer is responsible for all phases of the project life-cycle activities, from initial analysis through production support including design, testing, integration, implementation, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the development manager responsibilities will include:

• Assist technical & product managers in the evaluation of product requirements for software applications.
• Design, develop code and unit test your applications
• Provide accurate and reliable estimates for project tasks
• Application development, customization and integration of work
• Maintain/modify existing software applications with periodic releases
• Create test plans and test tools; support testing and address on-line bug reports/issues
• Document applications for technical white papers, functional and operations support documentation
• Provide on-call out-of-hours support for production on a rotation basis and ad hoc weekend and/or early morning cover of releases
• Adhere to departmental and company testing, change control, deployment and development practices and supporting QA engineers with their full integration, functional and regression testing

• Very strong C/C++ programming - 5+ years of development on Unix/Linux platforms.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and shell scripting exposure
• Experience with TCP/IP and multicast applications
• Hands on experience on developing multi-threaded applications.
• Understanding complex systems and how to debug problems
• Experience with debuggers such as GDB, and memory checkers such as Valgrind
• Experience with GIT source control management
• Experience with Google unit testing and testing frameworks
• SDLC experience as applicable to current development group processes
• Ability to adhere to company standards
• Teamwork - ability to work as project team member, work effectively with team leads, manager, as well as other teams including QA, Operations, and Product Management
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field

• Experience with database technologies, like MySQL, Postgres
• Understand market data behaviour across multiple asset classes (Equities, options, fixed income, and derivatives).
• Experience of complex high throughput, low latency systems
• Experience with cloud-based application development and setup
• Ability to work under pressure and multitask

Schedule

This role offers work from home flexibility of one day per week.