About Exegy
Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading systems, and future-proof technology. Exegy serves as a trusted partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, and financial services technology firms around the globe. Headquartered in St. Louis with regional offices in North America, the UK/Europe and Asia Pacific, Exegy has the global footprint to deliver world-class support and managed services to its customer base of elite financial market participants.
Job Summary
Exegy is seeking a highly motivated senior level software engineer to work closely with other dedicated engineers in our Market Data Engineering group. The engineer will be responsible for the design, implementation, documentation, and debugging of time critical, multi-threaded, distributed applications that interact with Exegy’s custom hardware acceleration devices. Successful candidates should have a strong work ethic, work well with others in a team environment, and the ability to quickly learn complex concepts relating to market data processing systems.
Responsibilities
Design and build ultra-low latency Foreign Exchange feed handlers for Equities, Options, Commodities, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange markets
Design and build reusable and extensible software to process financial market data in an ultra-low latency system
Refactor and test existing software implementations
Support Technical Account Managers and Operations
Mentor other Market Data Engineer developers
Work with other development groups at Exegy on strategic initiatives
Identify ways to automate testing, packaging, and deployment
Our Ideal Candidate Has:
BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or relevant industry experience
7+ years’ experience in developing multithreaded C++ software systems
5+ years’ experience in designing clean and extensible object-oriented designs
Experience in applying design patterns
Experience with scripting languages, Python preferred
Familiarity with Linux operating systems (RedHat, CentOS, SUSE Linux)
Experience with Linux development and debugging tools
Knowledge of profiling, memory leak detection and other code analysis
Experience developing real-time or ultra-low latency C++ software systems preferred
Experience with financial market data preferred
Top Skills
What We Do
Exegy provides ultra-high performance, hardware-accelerated computing appliances that process market data for financial organizations.
Exegy is the established leader in providing real-time market data solutions with an unparalleled combination of speed, capacity, features, and service. Today Exegy serves as a strategic partner to leading principal traders, agency brokers, exchanges, Alternative Trading System (ATS) and dark pool operators, market makers, hedge funds, and asset managers. Guided by these strategic relationships, Exegy has expanded their offerings to include historical market data solutions that deliver essential testing, analysis, and compliance capabilities to data-driven, automated trading strategies.
In addition, Exegy’s investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) drive Signum – a game-changing portfolio of predictive trading signals that are delivered in real-time, synchronously with low-latency market data. Learn more about the Signum portfolio of real-time trading signals at exegy-signum.com.
At the heart of Exegy solutions are purpose-built, hardware-accelerated appliances derived from an extensive portfolio of patented and patent-pending technology. All solutions are delivered as a fully managed service backed by a global team of experts and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Exegy delivers a premium user experience from its regional offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong, as well as its 24/7 operations center at its St. Louis headquarters.
Exegy promotes the design of robust electronic markets through its MarketDataPeaks service that reports real-time market data feed rates.
