Assistant Vice President/ Vice President, Senior C++ Developer, Global Market Technology

Job Description:

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Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Senior C++ Developer to join our global Electronic Trading Technology team. The candidate will be a key contributor to the evolution of our low‑latency automated trading engine-currently a legacy monolith built on TIBCO RV, AMPS, and a C# front end.

This role is ideal for someone who is self‑driven, thrives in complex technical environments, and is eager to help modernize a mission‑critical platform used across global markets. The position has a clear growth trajectory into a future Development or Feature Lead role.

Core Development

• Develop, enhance, and maintain a low‑latency, high‑throughput C++ trading engine running in latency‑sensitive production environments.
• Deep‑dive into a large legacy codebase with minimal supervision-understanding data flows, threading models, network patterns, and message‑bus interactions.
• Participate in architecture simplification efforts by migrating existing components to common foundational services.

Technical Modernization

• Lead the modernization of CI/CD pipelines, focusing on automated deployment, regression testing, and development workflow improvements.
• Introduce best practices around unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, and observability for a mission‑critical system.
• Contribute to the longer‑term strategy of re-platforming and modularizing parts of the legacy monolith.

Collaboration

Work closely with global teams across Hong Kong, Singapore, London, New York, and India to deliver new features and platform improvements.

Responsibilities:

Core Development

• Develop, enhance, and maintain a low‑latency, high‑throughput C++ trading engine running in latency‑sensitive production environments.
• Deep‑dive into a large legacy codebase with minimal supervision-understanding data flows, threading models, network patterns, and message‑bus interactions.
• Participate in architecture simplification efforts by migrating existing components to common foundational services.

Technical Modernization

• Lead the modernization of CI/CD pipelines, focusing on automated deployment, regression testing, and development workflow improvements.
• Introduce best practices around unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, and observability for a mission‑critical system.
• Contribute to the longer‑term strategy of re-platforming and modularizing parts of the legacy monolith.

Collaboration

• Work closely with global teams across Hong

Required Skills:

Technical Skills

• 5-10+ years of professional C++ development in latency‑sensitive or real‑time systems.
• Strong understanding of C++11/14/17+, STL, multithreading, lock‑free design, networking, and memory management.
• Prior experience with market connectivity, electronic trading, or high-performance systems is highly valued.
• Experience working with or supporting legacy distributed systems, ideally involving:
• TIBCO Rendezvous (RV)
• AMPS or similar pub/sub messaging platforms
• C# (for downstream UI or tooling) - reading/modifying code as needed
• Familiarity with Linux, low‑latency tuning, profiling tools, and debugging in distributed systems.

Soft Skills & Working Style

• Highly self‑motivated with the ability to explore and understand complex code paths independently.
• Strong decision‑making skills-able to assess trade-offs and propose well-reasoned technical solutions.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment where requirements and market conditions evolve quickly.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with global, cross-functional teams.

Desired Skills:

• Exposure to equity, FX, or fixed‑income electronic trading platforms.
• Experience in architecture redesign, monolith decomposition, or service‑oriented migrations.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
• Prior mentorship or team leadership experience.
• Hands‑on experience applying AI/ML techniques or AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., for code analysis, testing automation, performance tuning, or operational tooling) in a production or enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Github Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.) and automated testing frameworks.