Flow Traders is looking for experienced C++ Software Engineers to join our growing Digital Assets Development team in Amsterdam. The ideal candidate is curious, methodical and a multi-tasker. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!
At Flow Traders you will develop low-latency systems for trading various asset classes across global venues. Working closely with product owners, traders, and quantitative analysts, you'll design and optimize trading strategies. You'll focus on platform support, latency reduction, fault tolerance, and memory optimization, ensuring high throughput. Your role includes deployment, post-deployment support, and collaboration with operations and trading teams to maintain infrastructure stability, performance, and availability, while also addressing production issues and enhancing monitoring.
Some of the technologies we use in the development process
We do not expect previous experience with all the items listed below.
- C++ (Standard in use: C++17. Migrating to C++20)
- Compilers: gcc 10 / clang 17
- Python, Rust and Typescript
- Build system: CMake
- Version control: Git
- Testing frameworks: Google Test, Pytest, and Nosetest
- Version control/code review system: Bitbucket
- Operating system: Debian Linux
- Continuous integration system: Bamboo
- Deployment automation: Ansible
What you will do
Main technical activities include:
- For all C++ openings:
- Lead the development and global rollout of our Core platform used in multiple business/focus groups (Market data, Quantitative research, Pricing, Strategies)
- Your development process will be a fast-paced iterative process where you deploy your deliverables and validate them yourself and/or together with traders or quants
- Develop tools/frameworks to deliver capabilities for tuning/develop data-driven systematic pricing and trading strategies
- Work together with focus group engineers, Quants and Technical traders to refine requirements, collect feedback, and iterate on design and implementation of platform requirements
- Exchange Connectivity:
- Your primarily responsibility will be writing software that communicates with crypto exchanges through their APIs, receiving market data and sending orders over the network in different protocols, such as FIX, Websocket or HTTP requests
- The quality of software is ensured thanks to a set of testing suites, which you are expected to use, maintain and extend;
- You will optimize exchange communication through kernel bypass, optimizing TLS or the connection handling to an exchange
- You will research exchange behavior in detail to align our behavior to that of an exchange
- You will implement this solutions using the provided exchange SDKs in different languages such as C++, Rust, Python, Typescript.
- Trading Strategies:
- Your main responsibility will be to implement trading algorithms based on requirements provided by traders and quants
- You will acquire and develop the necessary trading knowledge to successfully translate the requirements into actual software implementation
- Continuously improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine
- Enhance monitoring and observability in collaboration with the Trading Operations team
- Investigate and resolve production issues such as crashes, unexpected business logic behavior, and performance bottlenecks
- Prepare for releases and deployments of new trading engine versions
What you need to succeed
- 5+ years of experience with C++
- Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- Cryptocurrency/Blockchain familiarity highly preferable
- Understanding of full software development life cycle
- Ability to write clean and simple code
- Relevant experience with unit and regression testing
- Knowledgeable about computer architecture and memory subsystem
- Experience with some Linux distribution
- Good interpersonal and team playing skills
- Able to communicate with stakeholders with different backgrounds
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
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