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Vacancy 118 - Senior Low-Latency Software Engineer
Posting date January 15, 2014
Description: Optiver is a global trading firm with a difference. Our Sydney office trades across numerous exchanges in the Asia Pacific reason. We are a company who take our people and our technology very seriously. Due to growth and internal demand, we are currently looking for an exceptional developer with a flair for system optimisation and a knack for low-latency programming.
What you will be doing:
Your job will be to make our automated trading systems fast. Very fast. And if they can’t be made fast quickly, make new ones that are. Quickly. You’ll be charged with mentoring other developers in the dark arts of building low latency software as well as researching and integrating new technologies into our systems as the opportunities arise.
What you will need:
•5 years+ experience with C, C++, Linux & Linux System Internals, C++ frameworks, writing latency optimised software.
•A detailed understanding of multiprocessing hardware architecture, including recent technology advances.
•Experience profiling and tuning application performance at the microsecond level.
•Thorough understanding of TCP, UDP & multicast implementations, high performance messaging technologies, multithreading and IPC.
•Experience conducting constructive technical reviews
•Excellent oral and written communication skills
•Expert software engineering
Highly Desired skills include:
•Experience building low latency trading platforms for equities, futures or options trading.
•Prior development of exchange interface connectivity, for both order entry and market data
•Experience introducing new technology into an organization, from product research through to project delivery.
•Experience writing device drivers, embedded software or firmware.
Degree in computer science or computer engineering from a top tier university
What’s in it for you?
•Competitive salary and bonus
•The opportunity to develop through training and sponsored study
•Numerous amazing company perks, too many to mention.
Oh yeah l almost forgot! You must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident to be eligible to apply.
Please note: We are NOT accepting any applications from recruitment agencies. Applications from recruitment agents will not be considered.
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