Senior Software Engineer - FXGO
Location
London
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
Ref #
10043723
Description & Requirements
FXGO is a premier trading platform that allows traders to buy and sell currencies (FX) 24/5. The FX market is the largest market in the world, with more than $7 trillion traded every day. Our platform is used by the industry’s biggest players in over 120 countries to trade hundreds of billions of dollars with each other every day. Our trading applications are distributed, fault-tolerant, highly transactional and low-latency.
Our team
FXGO is a growing team of talented engineers who are passionate about our product. We take pride in building one of the premier FX trading platforms in the world. Our product is a big driver for terminal growth and generates additional revenue through transactions. We are currently hiring into the FXGO Post Trade FXGO Trade Lifecycle teams.
As a converging point of all FXGO trading workflows, the FXGO Post Trade team provides a common interface that allows upstream ticketing systems to book FX spot, outright, swap, NDF, orders and options transactions as well as deposits and precious metals. We support the FXGO trade blotter where all transactions can be viewed in real time. We also support a wide array of Post Trade workflows such as real time trade confirmations, trade cancellation, corrections and amendments as well as full Straight Through Processing (STP) through seamless integration with customers' internal systems. We also provide analytics functions for reporting.
The FX Trade Lifecycle team designs, builds, and maintains the core infrastructure responsible for capturing, storing, and processing high-volume trade activity events in real time. This critical data powers essential workflows managed by the team, including regulatory and compliance reporting, live trading blotters, and event-driven applications. Furthermore, this data supports numerous other vital workflows across the organization
Who are you?
An engineer who is motivated by building and adding value to financial products that are used by clients, and who appreciates the impact of your work. You’re someone who always takes ownership of what you’re doing, and you’re excited by the opportunity to work on problems that range from business logic, usability to stability and scalability. You love to see what you build in the hands of clients and the challenge of building a live real-time trading platform energizes you.
You’ll need to have:
* Experience building production ready applications in C++ A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
* An aptitude for problem solving, and a desire to build software solutions to complex business problems with experience getting involved in the full software development lifecycle
* Passion to drive technology and product evolution
We’d love to see:
* Experience with high volume, high availability distributed systems
* Good working knowledge of databases and messaging queues, preferably PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka
* Familiarity of JavaScript/TypeScript
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