C++ Developer

BMLL Technologies; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking FinTech company as a C++ Developer, where you'll engineer market and analytics data products. This role involves designing and developing innovative solutions, improving data processes, and collaborating with a dynamic team. With a focus on performance and reliability, you'll work with large datasets and cutting-edge technologies. Enjoy a collaborative culture, competitive salary, and perks like share options and remote work opportunities. If you're passionate about technology and finance, this is the perfect opportunity to grow your skills and make an impact.

Benefits

Share Options

Discretionary Bonus

Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Well-being Physical Activity budget

Continuous learning opportunities

Weekly team lunches

Free snacks and drinks

Cycle to Work Scheme

Remote work abroad for up to 40 days

Qualifications

• Experience in writing production-level C++ and delivering well-tested systems.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Own the full scope of development projects for market data and analytics products.
• Deliver new data products in C++ and migrate Python products to C++.

Skills

C++

Linux

Problem-solving

Communication

Financial data handling

Education

Computer Science Degree

STEM Degree

Tools

AWS

Python

Snowflake

Job description

About BMLL

We are the leading independent provider of harmonised Level 3 historical data and analytics to the world’s most sophisticated capital market participants. BMLL offers banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds and global exchange groups immediate and flexible access to the most granular Level 3, T+1 order book data and advanced analytics, enabling them to accelerate research, optimise trading strategies and generate alpha at unparalleled speed and scale.

Our culture is inclusive and highly collaborative, with a flat management structure that empowers our employees to get involved in decision making as we continue to grow and scale. We give all our employees share options so they participate in the growth and development of the business.

We offer a combination of remote and office (London based) working, weekly team lunches and plenty of office snacks!

For more information, please visit our website, www.bmlltech.com or visit our Twitter, @bmlltech or LinkedIn, @BMLL.

About the Role

At BMLL, we process financial data in a process we call parsing. We continually add new financial datasets to our platform whilst upgrading and improving existing ones. Parsing occurs in well-defined data pipelines built using a distributed architecture. The engineering of the pipeline is as important as the data transformation process, and we are constantly working to improve its performance and reliability. We curate the data to ensure the highest quality of delivery to our customers. Every day, we consume 600GB of new data across 750,000 securities to deliver into our platform, our dashboard products and data services. These are accessed by our customers who are dependent on our services for their own workflows.

We are looking for a strong C++ Developer to join a small team who engineers the market and analytics data products. As part of our technology strategy, you will design and develop the next generation of our analytics data products, This is a crucial part of our roadmap. You will also improve the process and reliability of managing these large datasets using the latest AWS technologies and become an expert in understanding the data and the way we curate and process it.

This is an opportunity to join a cutting-edge FinTech company with the potential to grow your technical, finance and cloud & data engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Owning the full scope of assigned development projects for market data and analytics data products, including liaising with the business to gather requirements, designing the solution with the team, and building and delivering completed functionality to production
• Delivering new data products in C++
• Migration of Python data products into C++ to drastically improve performance
• Helping to drive improvements in all areas, including the parsing framework, data quality, testing and CI
• Understanding the data, how it reaches BMLL, how we process it and deliver it to customers
• Communicating with technical teams both within BMLL and sometimes at data providers such as financial exchanges
• Some second-line support of the data product processes and the data, shared amongst the team.

Essential:

• Experience working with financial data or other large datasets
• Industry experience in writing production-level C++ and delivering functioning, well-tested systems.
• Industry experience in developing on a Linux platform
• Experience with industry-standard development methodologies such as source code control, unit testing and continuous integration
• Ability to self-organise and deliver a project over a period of up to a few months
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills
• Computer science or other STEM degree

Desirable:

• Industry experience with Python
• Snowflake
• AWS

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Share Options after completion of probationary period
• Discretionary Bonus
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Work remotely abroad for up to 40 business days each year
• Life Insurance
• Combination of remote and London-based office working (2 days in office per week)
• A yearly Well being Physical Activity budget
• Continuous learning through funded training and challenging projects
• Collaborative culture
• Weekly team lunches
• Free Fruit, snacks, and drinks provided throughout the day (When office based)
• Regular Team Socials
• Cycle to Work Scheme

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We pride ourselves on our commitment to Equality and Diversity. We are committed to removing barriers throughout our hiring process. If you have any special requirements or require reasonable adjustments to help you access career opportunities at BMLL, please do let us know in your application cover letter.