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 hiring a Technical Engineering Lead, C++ for our Montreal office to lead the development of ultra-low latency, high-performance systems used by leading financial institutions. You’ll provide technical leadership across projects, mentor a team of engineers, and shape the architecture and delivery of complex, mission-critical systems.
Responsibilities
Drive architecture and technical direction for performance-sensitive C++ systems
Lead design discussions, code reviews, and implementation planning
Mentor and coach a team of engineers; support their technical and professional growth
Partner with product and engineering leaders to align technical solutions with business needs
Own reliability, scalability, and maintainability of production systems
Analyze, debug, and improve system performance in latency-critical environments
Contribute to hiring and team-building efforts; foster a culture of technical excellence
Our Ideal Candidate Has:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
7+ years of experience in C++ software development, including 2+ years in a technical leadership role
Deep understanding of concurrent programming, system performance, and low-latency design
Proven experience guiding teams through the full software development lifecycle
Proficiency with Linux development and debugging tools
Experience in capital markets, financial data distribution, or algorithmic trading platforms is highly desirable
Strong communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical teams
Fluent in both French and English (written and spoken)
Ability to work in a hybrid environment with presence in the Montreal office
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.
