C Developer - Technical Lead

Acuity Analytics; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Analytics is seeking a Technical Lead with deep C/C++ expertise to drive architecture and modernization of our FICC trading platforms. You will partner with quants, traders, and engineers to deliver robust, high-performance solutions for front-office systems.

The role demands senior hands-on engineering, system design, and mentoring across distributed teams to ensure latency‑critical stability and continuous platform improvement.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in capital markets, preferably FICC.
• Hands-on engineering with architecture leadership track record.
• Experience building, optimizing, and modernizing high‑performance trading platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and development of complex trading platforms.
• Define system architecture, scalability, resilience, and performance strategies.
• Drive modernization of legacy trading systems while maintaining business continuity.
• Collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Lead performance engineering initiatives including latency reduction and memory management.
• Establish engineering standards, design reviews, and code quality practices.
• Mentor senior developers and provide technical leadership across distributed teams.
• Support production stability, root‑cause analysis, and platform improvements.

Skills

Technical leadership

C/C++ development

Architecture design

Performance tuning

Low-latency systems

Mentoring

Latency analysis

Tools

C++

C#

Job description

8 - 12 Years

Permanent

Job Description

Job purpose

We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead with deep expertise in C programming and extensive experience building, enhancing, and modernizing trading platforms within Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) environments.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands‑on engineering capability with architecture leadership, system design expertise, and a proven track record of optimizing high‑performance, low‑latency applications used by front‑office trading businesses.

This role will drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, platform modernization, performance tuning, and engineering excellence across mission‑critical trading systems.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and development of complex trading and market‑facing platforms.
• Define system architecture, scalability, resilience, and performance strategies for business‑critical applications.
• Drive modernization of legacy trading systems while ensuring business continuity and platform stability.
• Partner with traders, quants, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Lead performance engineering initiatives including latency reduction, capacity optimization, memory management, and
• Establish engineering standards, architecture principles, design reviews, and code quality practices.
• Mentor senior developers and provide technical leadership across distributed teams.
• Support production stability, root‑cause analysis, and continuous platform improvement initiatives.
• Strong experience in C++ and/or C# (preferred).
• Deep understanding of:
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Performance Profiling & Latency Analysis

Domain Experience

• Strong experience within Capital Markets, preferably FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities).

Experience working on:

• Pricing & Risk Platforms
• Low‑Latency Transaction Processing Systems
• Understanding of Fixed Income products, trading workflows, market data, pricing and trade lifecycle processes.

Job Snapshot

Job ID

JOB_8030

Department

Data and Technology Services