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Job Description
Job Description
Senior C++ Developer
6 months contract – Competitive market rates – Inside IR35 - London – 3 days on-site
Key Skills: C++, Red Hat Linux (ideally V7), Experience with In house built trading systems is a must, FIX, Equities/Options
The Role:
A global trading organisation is looking for a Senior C++ Developer to join their team to become accountable for designing, developing and supporting the systems and services for their next trading platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with business analysts and architects to thoroughly understand and analyze complex business and technical requirements.
- Produce high-quality documentation, including detailed technical, functional, and unit test specifications.
- Design, develop, debug, implement, test, and provide support for software solutions, applications, and services.
- Conduct thorough unit testing of delivered software in a systematic manner.
- Provide effective and efficient third-line application support for production systems, ensuring permanent remediation of issues.
- Participate in and contribute to peer reviews of solution designs and related code to enhance quality and produce efficient, flexible, robust, and supportable solutions.
- Drive team goals and objectives, ensuring compliance with appropriate governance and adherence to software development best practices.
- Continuously learn new technologies as necessary to fulfill other roles within the development team and address evolving business needs.
- Serve as a positive representative of the solutions delivery function within the organization and undertake additional roles and responsibilities as required to meet project requirements.
- Lead design discussions and initiatives within the team.
- Propose and implement improvements to processes and systems, taking ownership of their execution.
Key experience:
- Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience in systems analysis, design, and development.
- Thorough understanding of designing and constructing server-side C++ applications, preferably on RedHat 7 or newer versions.
- Demonstrated expertise in developing large-scale, mission-critical systems with a focus on low latency or fault tolerance.
- Proficiency in software development methodologies and experience working in a structured environment is essential.
- Familiarity with financial services, derivatives, or trading within an exchange, sell-side, or front office setting is highly advantageous.
- Hands-on experience in developing low-level, high-performance systems.
- Knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), concurrency models, threading, multicast messaging, or FIX message protocols would be beneficial.
- Wide-ranging experience across development toolsets, source control, branching strategy, Continuous Integration (CI), and utilization of DevOps practices.
To be considered, please ensure you complete your application on the Computappoint website.
Key Skills: Key Skills: C++, Red Hat Linux (ideally V7), Experience with In house built trading systems and trading derivatives is a must.
- Services offered by Computappoint Limited are those of an Employment Business and/or Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.