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Title:  Senior Developer - Market Data
Location:  New York, NY
Job Type:  Direct Hire
Compensation:   per Year
Reference Code:  1000001-AQG
Description:  Our client located in New York City is seeking Senior Developer - Market Data. Activities and tasks will include:
  • Design and develop the market data platform
  • Quickly analyze and gain an in-depth technical understanding of client's existing market data distribution platform
  • Design and develop client market data gateways
  • Improve reliability, increased throughput and decrease latency of market data
  • Collaborate with the QA teams to define and implement rigorous performance, stability and scalability testing
Requirements:  Specific Qualifications (items are required unless noted otherwise):
  • Skills in design and development of high throughput market data distribution systems for equity or client's markets
  • Concurrent, distributed programming skills in Java
  • Strong understanding of system analysis and design in multithreaded applications
  • Keen understanding of the challenges in multithreaded development (e.g. deadlocks, race conditions) and practical techniques for addressing them
  • Network programming - TCP, UDP, sockets, multicast
  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or other related degree
  • 3+ years designing and implementing market data systems in equity or client's markets
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • Product/Business skills: Equity exchange connectivity/market connectivity development; bank system development - rate engines, market making or similar
  • Leadership skills: Collaborative system design and architecture; Deliver software projects on time, on scope and on budget
  • Infrastructure skills: Build/process management: Maven, CruiseControl, and Subversion
  • Operating systems skills: Linux
  • Middleware: Experience developing systems with one or more of the following: Gemfire, Gigaspaces, Javaspaces, ActiveMQ, SonicMQ, and/or CameronFIX
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Team player; willing and able to drive collaborative efforts across the organization to improve product quality, reduce expense and increase productivity
  • Ability and interest in working in a dynamic, focused, energetic and rapidly evolving company