Job Opportunity

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential | New York, NY

Job Summary

Quantitative proprietary trading firm. Design and develop a robust, fault-tolerant and scalable big-data system capable of crunching billion records per-day from hundreds of sources. CS or EE educational background from a top institution. 4+ years of professional software development experience.

Details

My client is a quantitative proprietary trading firm based in New York, they are an industry leading trading and technology firm with an extremely competitive electronic market making operation.

They are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer with substantial experience working on large systems , processing and storing large amounts of data.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop robust, fault-tolerant and scalable big-data system capable of crunching billion records per-day from hundreds of sources.
  • Build an easy to use querying layer on top of the data system.

This is a fantastic opportunity to build a big data system from scratch and to be the architect for the entire system.

Requirements

  • 4 + years of professional software development experience with C++ (preferred), C, Java, or C#.
  • Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
  • Strong competences in software design, data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience using or managing MongoDB or Hadoop.
  • Linux system administration and scripting.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Expert C/C++ object-oriented low level technical skills.
  • CS or EE educational background from a top institution.
  • Knowledge of Python or Perl and shell scripts.

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  • Job Reference #: 83998
  • Min Education: BA/BS
  • Min Experience: 4 years

Contact Details:

Tahir Rauf
+44 (0)20 3589 3242