Senior C++ Engineer

Job description

Pico fuels the global capital markets community by providing exceptional market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions. As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Role Overview This is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Pico’s entire product range. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive innovative work on-going and an exciting vision to fulfill. Pico’s technology is used in many ways today including: - to understand our customers’ market position in capital markets; to understand how our customers’ backbone network is performing; to debug our customers’ application performance; to capture and provide access to historical market data; to provide normalised real-time market data feeds; to monitor voice over IP call quality. We need brilliant engineers to help bring this technology into new markets and new deployment models. If you want to work in a team with people at least as good as you, if you want to solve the problems encountered when analysing the firehose of network data in real time and providing solutions for consumers of real-time and historical, raw and normalised market data - then Pico is what you are looking for. Requirements: - Minimum 2:1 in a 3rd Level Computer Science/Engineering Degree or equivalent Minimum of 4 years of development experience Expert proficiency in C++ development under Linux is required. Experience in using python, shell scripting, makefiles, etc Understanding of algorithms and design patterns Multi-threaded application development Automated testing (unit testing, integration testing) Linux-based development environments, including tools such as gdb and valgrind IP networking knowledge Desired Skills and Attributes: - <span