Senior and Principal C++ engineer

Job Title

Principal Software Engineer – C++

Type of Employment

Permanent

Location

London

Aquis maintains a presence in both the UK and EU (primarily Paris). Aquis operates a hybrid working environment with a mixture of office and working from home days. In London we currently operate a minimum of 3 days working in the office with Tuesday as an all-in day.

Salary

Please ask recruiter or hiring manager.

Reports To

Head of backend engineering team

About Aquis Exchange PLC

Aquis Exchange PLC (“Aquis”) is Europe’s challenger exchange, creating better markets for a modern economy. Aquis has market-leading technology and innovative rules for trading, and offer primary listings and secondary trading of equities, along with global licensing of proprietary technology.

Aquis consists of four divisions:

Aquis Markets operates lit and dark order books, covering 16 European markets. For its lit books, Aquis uses a subscription pricing model which works by charging users according to the message traffic they generate, rather than a percentage of the value of each stock that they trade.

Aquis Technologies is the software and technology division of Aquis. It focuses on building better markets via the creation and licensing of cutting-edge, cost-effective exchange infrastructure technology and services, including matching engine and trade surveillance solutions.

Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE) is a stock market providing primary and secondary markets for equity and debt products. It is authorised as a Recognised Investment Exchange, which allows it to operate a regulated listings venue. The AQSE Growth Market is divided into two segments 'Access' and 'Apex'; the Access market focuses on earlier stage growth companies, while Apex is the intended market for larger, more established businesses.

Aquis Data generates revenue from the sale of data derived from Aquis Markets and Aquis Stock Exchange to non-Member market participants.

Aquis is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and France's Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and L’Autorité des marchés financiers to operate Multilateral Trading Facility businesses in the UK & Switzerland markets and in EU27 markets respectively. Aquis Exchange PLC is quoted on the Aquis Stock Exchange and on the AIM Market (AIM) of the LSE. For more information, please go to www.aquis.eu.

At Aquis you will join a supportive team, where we aim to recruit the best people from all walks of life and diverse business backgrounds. If these sentiments align with your thinking, then Aquis could be the ideal place for you to develop your career.

Benefits (not exhaustive list)

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave - not including bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Flexible working hours

Company pension

Group Policies – Life Assurance, Income Protection and Critical Illness

Discretionary bonus

Share Incentive Plan

Electric Car Scheme

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policy

Workplace nursery scheme

Job Overview

In this role you will work with the Product team, Infrastructure team, and QA team, to produce high performance, low latency and highly reliable code. Your goal will be to develop software which handle large amount of TPS to drive a highly efficient technology used by several markets around the world, including ourselves.

To be successful in this role as a Principal Software Engineer – C++, you will be a proponent of agile methodology and modern software best practices. You can produce detailed technical work in OOP and work with other members of the Development team to produce code of high-quality standards. Ideally, you should have worked in critical systems development in the past.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Codes, tests, integrates, and documents software.

• Provides technical leadership to more junior employees and other teams.

• Apply principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex products.

• Participate as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems.

• Work on the hardest technical problems facing the company, often these problems are unusually complex and require the utmost creativity and innovation.

• Apply and champion the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products.

• Keep abreast of technology trends and champion new ideas and process improvements.

Required Skills/Experience

• 10+ years development experience in >= C++11 and Boost creating performant, scalable applications.

• 6+ years of experience in networking (UDP, Multicasting, TCP, etc...), messaging, and algorithms.

• 6+ years of experience on Linux systems.

• Good understanding of modern development best practices and methodologies

• Python, including Pytest.

• Knowledge of capital markets exchange connectivity on stocks (fixed income and derivatives is a plus), including exchange protocols such as FIX and SBE.

• Most importantly, a drive to solve complex technological and trading challenges with a great team of talented developers.

• Comfortable using Agile methodology, including continuous integration, sprints, Jira and the relevant processes and workflow.

• Some understanding and usage of cloud technology is a plus but not mandatory.

Mindset

• Patience and willingness to commit for the long term: candidates must be prepared to learn a substantial amount of knowledge of the system before being productive. Contributions to the most critical components will only be possible once the candidate has acquired sufficient experience with the system

• Good team player personality

• Autonomous

The statements included in this job description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required.

Equal opportunities at Aquis Exchange.

We are an equal-opportunities employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.