Fintech C++ Engineer

We need brilliant engineers to help bring this technology into new markets and new deployment models. If you want to work in a team with people at least as good as you, if you want to solve the problems encountered when analysing the firehose of network data in real time - capturing, decoding, analysing and indexing at 40Gb/s and more and providing solutions for consumers of real-time and historical, raw and normalised market data - then Corvil is what you are looking for. 

This is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Corvil’s entire product range. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive innovative work on-going and an exciting vision to fulfill. Corvil’s technology is used in many ways today including:

• to understand our customers’ market position in capital markets;  
• to understand how our customers’ backbone network is performing; 
• to debug our customers’ application performance;
• to capture and provide access to historical market data;
• To provide normalised real-time market data feeds;
• to monitor voice over IP call quality.

Requirements

• Third Level Computer Science/Engineering Degree or equivalent  
• 2-4 years of development experience
• A strong proficiency in C++ development under Linux is required.
• Understanding of algorithms and design patterns

A suitable candidate should be familiar with

• Multi-threaded application development
• Automated testing (unit testing, integration testing)
• Linux-based development environments, including tools such as gdb and valgrind
• Knowledge or experience with the following is a distinct advantage:
• STL
• Boost
• Python
• Virtualized/cloud technologies
• Experience with Continuous Integration (Jenkins), including the delivery of CI aligned test automation
• Financial trading protocols e.g. FIX
• IP networking
• Packet capture analysis using tools such as Wireshark

Desired Skills and Attributes 

• Think problems all the way through
• Understand how to write code that can be worked on by others
• Understand what it takes to deliver and code a high availability and high-performance system
• Are aware of the implementation details of commonly used C++ features and how to use that knowledge to help implement efficient yet maintainable code
• Are comfortable asking for help, taking advice and accepting criticism
• Can articulate the reasoning behind decisions or trade-offs
• Can follow existing patterns where required to do so
• Can invent new patterns where required to do so - and justify that invention
• Are able to solve issues seen in the field from very limited data