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C++ Developer required by major Investment Bank based in London to join Exchange Connectivity team. Both contract and permanent applicants will be considered.
The Exchange Connectivity team provides applications to the business to connect traders to global financial exchanges. The team is split between London, Asia and New York providing links to around 40 futures and equity exchanges. The systems allow internal and external users to connect via GUIs or FIX connectivity. They are very high volume and are scalable and fault tolerant. Server-side components are written in C++ under windows 2000. GUIs are written in a mixture of C# and VB.
You will be responsible for providing exchange connectivity development to the XTP system.
The XTP system connects GUI and FIX users to Futures, Options and Equity exchanges (around 40 in total). The software handles hundresds of thousands of transactions a day and must operate near to real-time.
Development is required in several server-side components:
• The load-balanced Exchange gateways
• The central distributed Order Management Server
In order to apply for this role you must have;
•8+ years C++ (server dev rather than GUI) preferably VC++ under Windows
• 2+ years Financial exchange development.
• Multi-threaded experience
• Performance tuning (Rational Quantify etc)
• High-volume server side experience
• 2+ years of database experience (preferably Oracle or MS SQL)
• Source code control systems
• Equity and Futures product knowledge
5+ years Front Office development
Christian James
The Kaizen Partnership
020 7743 6170