Lead Software Engineer (Fintech)

Software Engineer - Trading Backend

Company

TrueX

Conditions

2 days agoLeadSalary: 125K - 200KNew York, USA Hybrid Trading Jobs by TrueX

Skills

Cmake Colocation Dpdk Ansible Performance Engineering Linux Github Actions Terraform Security Cloud Networking Observability Aws Ci/Cd Grafana Prometheus Low-Latency Messaging Gtest Security Hardening Api C# Concurrency Systems Programming

About the Role

You will build and maintain centralized trading infrastructure and server-side components, primarily using C++, to power real-time trading systems. You will design and implement high-performance APIs, optimize system latency, work with colocation hardware and cloud resources, support production environments, and improve observability and testing.

Requirements

• Strong background in performance-critical software engineering and system-level tuning
• Proven experience in systems programming languages such as C++ or Rust
• Experience in financial services, fintech, or crypto
• Proficient in Linux development and operations
• Experience with low-latency messaging technologies and transports
• 5+ years of experience with modern C++ (C++17 or newer) and tooling (CMake, gcc/clang, gtest)
• Linux administration and performance tuning skills
• Experience with advanced performance techniques such as kernel bypass networking (DPDK), CPU isolation, core affinity, and memory optimizations (huge pages, cache alignment)
• Familiarity with security hardening practices
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cost optimization
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and administration (VLANs, firewalls, VPNs, DNS)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience with observability and monitoring frameworks (Grafana, Prometheus)
• Familiarity with modern SDLC workflows and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trading system applications and supporting code infrastructure
• Work with colocation hardware and cloud resources
• Utilize automated testing tools to validate code changes and ensure reliability
• Support DevOps processes and SDLC tooling
• Participate in code reviews
• Support development, user acceptance testing, and production environments
• Document and maintain public APIs and internal documentation
• Identify and implement observability tools for monitoring and troubleshooting

Benefits

• Full healthcare coverage
• Equity
• Remote flexibility

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