Software Engineer, C++ - Digital Assets Core Performance

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Amsterdam
Mid level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
The Software Engineer will develop low-latency systems for cryptocurrency trading, optimizing communication with exchanges, performing detailed research on exchange behavior, and ensuring quality throughout the software development life cycle while collaborating closely with product owners, researchers, and traders.
Summary Generated by Built In

Flow Traders is looking for a Software Engineer, C++ to join our growing Digital Assets Technology team in Amsterdam. The ideal candidate is driven, innovative and passionate about crypto and performance. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading digital assets market maker with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business

At Flow Traders you will work on developing low-latency systems that are used to trade cryptocurrencies at many venues around the world. We are looking for motivated software engineers that can take ownership of the full software development life cycle. You will work closely with product owners, researchers and traders to gather, discuss and clarify requirements and take responsibility for testing and ensuring quality of your implementations; and deploy production and work together with operations engineers and traders to perform post-deployment support and validation.

 

Some of the technologies we use in the development process

We do not expect previous experience with all the items listed below.

  • C++ (Standard in use: C++20)
  • Python
  • Compilers: gcc 13 / clang 17
  • Build system: CMake
  • Version control: Git
  • Testing frameworks: Google Test, Pytest, and Nosetest
  • Version control/code review system: Bitbucket
  • Operating system: Debian Linux
  • Continuous integration system: Bamboo
  • Deployment automation: Ansible 

 What you will do

Main technical activities include:

  • Your primarily responsibility will be writing software in C++ that optimizes our communication with crypto exchanges for receiving market data and sending orders over the network in different protocols, such as FIX, Websocket or HTTP requests. Such optimizations can be achieved in various ways such as kernel bypass, optimizing TLS or the connection handling to an exchange
  • To find such opportunities you will research exchange behavior in detail to align our behavior to that of an exchange


What you need to succeed

  • 3+ years of experience with C++
  • Development experience with latency sensitive applications
  • Experience with AWS is a plus
  • Experience with connection or feed arbitrage for crypto exchanges
  • Implementation experience to support TLS is beneficial
  • Knowledge of kernel bypass solutions such as DPDK is a plus
  • Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms
  • Understanding of full software development life cycle
  • Ability to write clean and simple code
  • Experience with unit and regression testing is nice to have
  • Knowledgeable about computer architecture
  • Experience with some Linux distribution
  • Good interpersonal and team playing skills
  • Ability to communicate with stakeholders of different backgrounds


Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

Top Skills

C++
The Company
HQ: New York, NY
626 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015.

Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test.
Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.

At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.

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