In this role you will be responsible for the high-performance backend systems that connect to various exchanges, balancing the meticulous maintenance of legacy code with the engineering of modern, low-latency optimizations.
The ideal candidate is a C++ specialist who enjoys the challenge of real-time systems programming and doesn't mind occasionally jumping into the frontend to ensure end-to-end functionality for market-related changes.
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Maintaining existing legacy codebase for backend applications, specifically on the exchange connectivity side
- Engineering improvements and optimizations for existing performance and memory bottlenecks
- Improving or building tools and automated tests for existing markets / exchanges
- Occasionally maintaining frontend codebase for exchange / market related changes
- Work closely with other engineers to design and implement the changes.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Substantial professional experience with >= C++17
- Proficiency with object-oriented design and development
- Proficiency with Linux at a systems-level for developing real-time software (lock-free and wait-free design patterns)
- Understanding of multi-threading and memory ordering concepts
- Understanding of low-latency network programming
- Experience with C++ template
- Experience with Python for developing tools and automated testing
- GDB coredump debugging experience
- Experience utilizing AI-assisted coding tools (Claude code)
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience with Javascript for Web / GUI / frontend development
- Familiarity with financial markets and exchange protocols (e.g. FIX)
- Experience with Valgrind, gprof, perf, or similar performance analysis tools
Competitive Benefits & Perks in India We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.
- Health & Financial Security:
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Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Time Off & Flexibility:
- Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities and strengthens our company culture.
- 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days.
- One dedicated day per year for volunteering.
- Two professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development.
- An additional PTO day is added during milestone anniversary years.
- Robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal.
- Generous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).
- Work-Life Support & Resources:
- Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.
- Milestone anniversary bonuses.
- Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:
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Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives.
- Our Culture:
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Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.
Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) is a global capital markets platform services company providing market-leading technology for the end-to-end trading operations of Tier 1 banks, brokerages, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. With its roots in listed derivatives, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company delivers “multi-X” solutions, with “X” representing asset classes, functions, workflows, and geographies. This multi-X approach features trade execution services across futures and options, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX), and cryptocurrencies, augmented by solutions for data and analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA); quantitative trading; compliance and trade surveillance; clearing and post-trade allocation; and infrastructure services. The award-winning TT platform ecosystem also helps exchanges deliver innovative solutions to their market participants and technology companies to distribute their complementary offerings to Trading Technologies’ clients.
Trading Technologies is backed by leading global investment firms Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest and most experienced software investors, and 7Ridge, a global growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled businesses.
This investment supports Trading Technologies’ continued focus on product innovation, platform scalability, and long-term growth for customers and partners worldwide.
Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, parental status, veteran, or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.
