Senior Software Engineer, C++

About Exegy

Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading systems, and future-proof technology. Exegy serves as a trusted partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, and financial services technology firms around the globe. Headquartered in St. Louis with regional offices in North America, the UK/Europe and Asia Pacific, Exegy has the global footprint to deliver world-class support and managed services to its customer base of elite financial market participants.

Job Summary

At the heart of a mixed software and hardware team you’ll be a key member of the Trading agile team of Exegy responsible for trading solutions around the following products: 

• nxFeed: A full feature feed handler which streamlines market data application development by processing data feeds on FPGA and making them available to applications via a simple, normalized API 

• nxAccess:  A fully featured execution engine with an FPGA algorithm sandbox allowing users to preload orders in hardware, receive market data then trigger & update those orders then send to the trading venue – with the speed and performance of hardware assisted by the flexibility of software 

Responsibilities

You will work in a team consisting of software & hardware engineers, driven by one Engineering Manager in close relation with the Team Product Owner. You will be involved on all phases of the projects to guarantee an optimized and performing development that responds to the constraints of last generation FPGA development.  

Working for Mohamed, the team engineering manager, and in close collaboration with the software architects and Tech Leader, your main responsibilities will be: 

• Collaborate with various stakeholders to determine software requirements

• Develop product functionalities

• Create high-level product specifications and design documents

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with coding or design

• Improve the delivery environment (CI/CD) and workflow for the team

• Ensure that you and the team adhere to development schedules and deadlines

• Supervise testing of the final product to ensure it is completely functional and meets requirements

• Document and record every aspect of delivered applications

Our Ideal Candidate Has

• Degree in computer science engineering

• 6+ years of professional experience

• Extensive experience in software development and project management

• Excellent organizational and leadership abilities

• Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Solid knowledge of low-level Linux systems and networks

• Technical environment: Modern C++, Linux, Python, Networks, Scripting, Jenkins, Git

• Professional English and French