Contract Flex C++ Developer

MUST be local to New York City, Hybrid (2-3 days onsite)

Responsibilities

• Develop C++ libraries to integrate Quant pricing models into Murex FLEX API for equities and derivatives products.
• Work in agile fashion with the rest of development team using scrum / jira.
• Architect performant and resilient components which insulate the execution system from failures in the external pricing code.
• Work with strats and quants to enable them to use your integration code.
• Work with CICD team to create devops pipelines for your code, including containerization.
• Develop additional components for monitoring of pricing libraries, and integration with future other pricing components (Java & Python)

Requirements and skills

• Expert level knowledge of C++
• Experience developing and architecting real time distributed software systems in financial services.
• Knowledge of the scrum agile framework
• Experience with JIRA / Confluence
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins, Sonar, Redgate, Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience building scalable computational distributed services
• Experience with multiplatform enterprise service development and challenges of data serialization
• Experience with developing service wrappers for Python or C++ libraries
• Building and interfacing with REST API (including Enterprise Authorization and Authentication)
• Enterprise services (including monitoring, state management)
• Experience with Java Messaging Services (Active MQ or similar)
• Experience with Inter-process communication (IPC) such as Google protocol buffers or similar
• Experience implementing a Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) process for C++ applications including dependency management and deployments to Linux environments
• Experience with RPCs
• MS SQL Server experience

Desirable skills and experience

• Murex FLEX experience is a plus.
• Experience working with Equities and Fixed Income electronic trading, market data and pricing is a plus.
• Experience working with quantitative and trading teams is also a plus.
• Java and Python skills are a plus.

Education Requirement: BS Degree