C++ Software Engineer - Market Data

Talan Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement plan with company matching

15 days paid vacation per year

Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans

Job summary

Talan Group is seeking a self-driven Senior Market Data Engineer to take ownership of core components of our market data stack. This high-impact role will influence trading outcomes through the design and delivery of performance-critical infrastructure.

Responsibilities include designing high-performance market data systems and driving exchange protocol upgrades. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in C++ and a deep understanding of real-time systems.

The position offers a salary range of US$110,000 - US$150,000 along with various benefits including health insurance and a retirement plan.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience in modern C++ within performance-critical systems.
• Deep understanding of large-scale, real-time, low-latency systems.
• Experience building or maintaining market data feed handlers and order book systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance market data systems.
• Drive exchange protocol upgrades and venue onboarding.
• Optimize systems for throughput, latency, and resiliency.

Skills

Modern C++

Real-time systems

Multithreading

Memory management

Networking

Debugging skills

Exchange protocols

Job description

Qualifications

We are seeking a self-driven Senior Market Data Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of core components of our market data stack.

This is a high-impact role with direct influence on trading outcomes through the design and delivery of performance-critical infrastructure.

You will work closely with the engineering teams to ensure our market data platform scales with business growth while maintaining the highest standards of resiliency, precision, and speed.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and own high-performance market data systems, including feed handlers, order book construction, distribution frameworks, and research-facing tools and services.
• Drive exchange protocol upgrades, venue onboarding, and behavioral changes while preserving strict determinism and latency guarantees.
• Expand market and asset class coverage to support trading growth across equities, futures, options, and adjacent products.
• Continuously improve data quality, completeness, and internal consistency across the platform.
• Optimize systems for throughput, latency, and resiliency under extreme production load.
• Act as a strong production owner, independently driving projects from design through deployment and long-term operational support.
• Partner with trading and quantitative research teams to translate business requirements into robust, performant technical solutions.
• Contribute to architectural direction and raise engineering standards across the team.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong hands‑on experience in modern C++ within performance‑critical systems (Currently on 20/23, starting enable 26 features)
• Deep understanding of large-scale, real‑time, low‑latency systems, including multithreading, memory management, and networking and application performance assessment, latency analysis, profiling, OS tuning, etc.
• Experience building or maintaining market data feed handlers, order book systems, or exchange connectivity infrastructure.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex, real‑time production environments.
• Familiarity with exchange protocols (e.g., ITCH, PITCH, iMpact, OUCH, etc.).
• Demonstrated ownership of systems operating in production environments.
• Ability to balance performance, correctness, and maintainability in pragmatic engineering decisions.

Benefits

• The salary range for this role is US$110,000 - US$150,000
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• 15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
• 8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
• Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
• Voluntary STD and LTD

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.