Software Engineer – C++ - Kitchener, Ontario

GTS; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm in Kitchener is seeking a developer with 5 years of electronic trading experience. The role involves maintaining and modernizing data infrastructure, collaborating with vendors, and enhancing trading workflows. Candidates should have programming expertise in C, experience in Linux environments, and strong communication skills. This full-time position offers in-office perks like free lunch and a casual dress code.

Benefits

Free lunch daily

Access to a fully stocked pantry

Casual dress code

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional experience ideally in electronic trading.
• Experience operating in a Linux environment.
• Strong communication skills ability to express complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Work with vendors to implement fix message handlers.
• Maintain C data distribution infrastructure.
• Implement new trading workflows with business stakeholders.

Skills

C Programming

Linux

Concurrent Programming

Computer Networking

Python

SQL

Education

BS / MS degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Git

ClickHouse

InfluxDB

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Overview

The booking and clearing team is responsible for the real-time processing of GTSs post-trade flow. This includes handling all flow from venue broker and OMS counterparties maintaining our reconciliation systems and both real-time and end of day reporting of GTS trading activity. This role is focused on business delivery of new trading workflows and is ideal for a developer that is experienced or interested in learning the lifecycle of a trade after it is executed and is a great opportunity to learn the finance industry in more detail. The development work will involve our high-volume data-processing solutions for the daily analysis of the firms trading activities across all asset classes and augmenting improving and redesigning software systems that support and monitor our trading activity in real-time.

Responsibilities

• Work with vendors and exchanges to implement fix message handlers
• Maintain and modernize the firms C data distribution infrastructure
• Work with business stakeholders to implement new trading workflows (create redeems tentative / final price fill workflows)
• Maintain the firms python reconciliation infrastructure

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional experience ideally in electronic trading
• BS / MS degree in computer science or related field
• Experience with C
• Experience operating in a Linux environment
• Familiarity with binary data multi-threading real-time and distributed software systems
• Thorough understanding of computer networking protocols and concepts
• Strong programming skills and grasp of concurrent programming patterns and data structures
• Strong communication skills ability to express complex concepts in simple terms verbally and in writing
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in an open and collaborative environment
• Experience with UNIX utilities and scripting (Python shell etc.) experience with a version control system (e.g. Git)
• Experience with time series and relational databases (ClickHouse InfluxDB TimescaleDB MySQL PostgreSQL)

We're proud to employ some of the leading talent in the industry and we work to ensure our employees enjoy a high quality-of-life.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability .

What We Offer :

• In-office perks Free lunch daily and access to a fully stocked pantry (when working in the office).
• Casual dress code(when working in the office).

Unsolicited resumes

We do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with GTS.

Key Skills

• Anti Money Laundering
• English Speaking
• Data Entry
• Food
• Investigation
• Adobe Indesign

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1