Senior C Engineer

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.

Who We Are  

Pico provides agile and transparent technology solutions to the Financial Markets 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 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 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 innovation are everyday activities; if you want to solve the problems encountered when normalizing and analyzing the firehose of data in real time – then Pico is what you are looking for. 

Requirements:  

• BSc/MSc in a relevant Engineering disciple (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Maths, Physics, etc) 
• A strong proficiency in C development under Linux 
• Knowledge of Financial trading concepts (orders, trades, quotes, etc) and protocols, including FIX.  
• Knowledge of high-performance systems and multi-threaded application development 
• Insatiable appetite for problem-solving and learning about technology 
• Team player - excels in a collaborative environment while using initiative to the team’s benefit 
• Extensive knowledge of computer architectures 
• Automated testing (unit testing, integration testing) 
• Focus on writing maintainable code 
• Excellent customer service attitude, communication skills (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills 
• Ability to ask for help, take advice, and incorporate constructive feedback 
• Ability to articulate the reasoning behind decisions or trade-offs 
• This role is office-based, minimum expectation is hybrid office/remote work. 

Experience/Knowledge of the following is desirable:  

• Extensive knowledge of computer architectures 
• 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 

Be a part of Pico Family

Pico is an equal opportunity employer. Pico does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at Pico are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.