ThinkMarkets is a global financial technology company, specializing in providing multi-asset trading solutions to thousands of clients around the world. With our flagship ThinkTrader platform, we make it available for our clients to trade the world 24-hours a day. Our mission is to bridge the gap between traders, investors, and platforms by allowing access to global markets and thousands of products thus providing our clients the ability to trade the world in the palm of their hand. We use the latest technologies to give traders seamless access to our proprietary trading platforms.

We are seeking a high caliber individual for the Principal C++ Engineer - Trading Platforms role to join our rapidly growing global workforce in Chicago, Illinois. The Principal C++ Engineer - Trading Platforms will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of standalone low-latency, high-throughput trading services as well as MT4 and MT5 modules. You will also be integrating internal services with trading venues, market data sources, and other APIs provided by various vendors around the globe. A successful candidate should demonstrate excellent software development knowledge, algorithmic thinking, and deep analytical skills.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, contributing to the planning, technical analysis, implementation, documentation, maintenance, and production deployments
• Analyze functional and non-functional requirements, and research third-party API specifications
• Research and advise in the selection and integration of the best technologies for our portfolio
• Define the architecture and technical design of trading system modules and services
• Estimate work and time efforts, and plan the project execution accordingly
• Design, build, and maintain optimal and efficient C++ services and MT4 and MT5 plugins, with emphasis on low latency, high-throughput, reliability and scalability
• Identify bottlenecks and devise permanent solutions
• Actively troubleshoot reported issues
• Build and utilize metrics to analyze features as they are deployed to Production to ensure they are functioning as expected
• Produce and maintain technical documentation of the developed modules and services
• Prepare and execute releases of software components
• Be available for escalation out of hours when needed for incidents that need a hot fix

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience developing C++ high-throughput, low-latency solutions
• BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science/Engineering or other IT related field
• Experience working with new C++20 features
• Proficiency working with multithreaded systems Experience with distributed caching architectures
• Experience working with RDBMS
• Experience with FIX, MDP, Protobuffers, and GRPC
• Demonstrable ability to analyze heap dumps, stack traces, and optimize memory utilization
• Familiarity with modern DevOps best practices 
• Experience in developing trading platforms and/or MT plugins is a must
• Knowledge about specific financial product spaces, such as FX, Equities, and Options
• Flexible nature and ability to communicate projects with C-level management