Oculon Intelligence is an AI-native, security first market intelligence platform built for the future of equities and options. We provide mission critical infrastructure required for enhanced compliance, execution analytics and real-time market surveillance.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in complexity, values intellectual rigor over optics and possesses the grit to build a world-class platform from the ground up.
This is for the Engineer who wants to own a domain and deliver results that matter.
Required Experience
- Earned Progression: You have 5 to 15 years of experience demonstrating a clear trajectory of growth and increasing responsibility.
- Battle Tested: You have experience supporting high pressure production environments where downtime has significant consequences.
- Systems Reasoning: A proven ability to navigate and reason through massive system complexity with many moving parts at high speed.
- Autonomous: You are highly productive, even in ambiguous situations and/or environments. You problem solve quickly and get things done.
Required Technologies
- C++: You have expert proficiency with C++ (ideally C++ 20 or newer).
- Rust: Willingness to learn and/or build with Rust.
- OS Versatility: You have professional experience developing and debugging in Linux and Windows environments.
- Multi-threading
- SOA: Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and distributed systems.
Desired Technologies and Skills
- Low level systems: Knowledge of system bus, memory hierarchy and CPU architecture.
- Data and messaging: Experience with streaming or message bus systems such as Kafka, NATS, Redis or Valkey.
- Networking: Solid understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, etc).
- Tooling: Experience with performance and debug tooling (e.g. Valgrind, strace, perf, GDB).
- Cloud Infrastructure: General AWS knowledge (Load balancers, VPCs, networking "nuts and bolts").
- Modern Orchestration: Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, containerd).
- Architecture Design: Deep knowledge of design patterns and scalable system architecture.
- Remote Debugging: SSH and remote Linux debugging capabilities.
Projects You Will Work On in Year One
- First Three Months
- You will help build, harden and launch our first core product for our first tier of enterprise customers.
- First Six Months
- You will help transition our initial product onto fully proprietary and high-performance infrastructure.
- First Year
- You will help architect and build our compute dense analytics infrastructure.
Top Skills
What We Do
The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) aims to revitalize competition for issuers, establish the premier venue for listings, and create a world-class trading platform for all market participants. TXSE Group Inc is the parent company of the Texas Stock Exchange LLC. TXSE is headquartered in Dallas and plans to serve U.S.-based and international issuers, investors, and market participants. TXSE will offer both primary, dual, and ETP listings. With an initial capital raise of $161 million, TXSE is the most well-capitalized exchange to ever file a Form 1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. TXSE is on track to receive SEC approval later this year and to begin trading in early 2026, with listings by the end of the same year.
