Software Engineer (C++/Java)
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DatabentoFinancial Market Data
Remote / Boston / Salt Lake City / San Francisco / New YorkFull-TimeMiddle
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- JavaC++Data StructuresCI/CD
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup.
- Strong proficiency in both C/C++ and Java.
- Experience designing APIs with a strong focus on intuitive, developer-friendly interfaces.
- Familiarity with open source best practices, including release management, versioning, changelogs, issue triage, and backwards compatibility.
- Knowledge of systems programming, algorithms, data structures, multithreading, networked I/O, serialization, CPU architecture, kernel, and compilers.
- Experience working with multiprocess environments.
- Comfortable with lldb/gdb.
- An interest in low-level optimization and performance engineering.
- An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain our Java client library, ensuring it is robust, well-tested, and easy for external users to integrate with.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance server applications in C/C++.
- Write message parsers and feed handlers for direct market data feeds from trading venues.
- Optimize existing codebase for high throughput (millions of messages per second, up to 40+ gigabits) and low latency (measured in nanoseconds).
- Implement tools and libraries for petabyte-scale data processing and analysis.
- Collaborate with the systems team to implement best practices for build, deployment, CI/CD.
- Implement monitoring and improve application uptime.
- Ensure smooth feature rollouts and updates.
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