Pico
Financial Markets
SeniorCEngineer
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“Senior C Engineer at Pico. Skills: C development, Linux, High-performance systems, Multi-threaded application development. Design and development of new features across Pico’s entire product range. Bringing technology into new markets and new deployment models”
Industry & Context.
Insatiable appetite for problem-solving; Solve the toughest latency and throughput challenges; Solve the problems encountered when normalizing and analysing the firehose of data in real time
Criminal record check may be required
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proficiency in C development under Linux, Knowledge of high-performance systems and multi-threaded application development, Knowledge of computer architectures, Ability to ask for help, take advice, and incorporate constructive feedback, Ability to articulate the reasoning behind decisions or trade-offs
Nice to Have
Knowledge of Financial trading concepts (orders, trades, quotes, etc) and protocols, including FIX, Automated testing (unit testing, integration testing), Multiple Linux-based development environments, including tools such as gdb and valgrind, Python programming, Java programming, Continuous Integration (Jenkins), including the delivery of CI aligned test automation, IP networking, Packet capture analysis using tools such as Wireshark
What You'll Do.
Design and development of new features across Pico’s entire product range
Bringing technology into new markets and new deployment models
Normalizing and analysing data in real time
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Team player - excels in a collaborative environment while using initiative to the team’s benefit
Communication Scope
Communication skills (written and verbal)
Full Job Description
Pico fuels the global capital markets community by providing exceptional market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions. As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Pico provides agile and transparent technology solutions to the Financial Market community including infrastructure hosting, network connectivity, raw and normalized market data, Corvil analytics, and cloud services giving organizations the freedom to move fast. As financial industry experts at the centre of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices all around the globe. The Role This is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Pico’s entire product range. Our Redline Trading Solutions provides ultra-low latency market data and order execution solutions that solve the toughest latency and throughput challenges in today’s equities, options, futures and foreign exchange markets. Our Corvil Analytics technology is used extensively by market participants to understand various aspects of their performance and execution, at both network and business level, in real-time and retrospectively. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive, on-going innovative work and an exciting vision to fulfil We need brilliant engineers to help bring this technology into new markets and new deployment models. If you want to work with a team of highly skilled engineers where learning and in
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