Senior Software Engineer
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Job description
As a Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building and continuously improving the technology backbone of our trading business. You will work at the intersection of software engineering, trading, and market infrastructure, developing high-performance systems that operate in real time and directly impact trading performance.
This is a hands-on engineering role in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment where technology is central to decision-making, execution, and risk management.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, low-latency trading systems
- Build and optimize exchange connectivity, order routing, and market data infrastructure
- Develop real-time pricing, execution, and risk management tools
- Work closely with traders and researchers to translate ideas into production-ready systems
- Improve performance across latency-sensitive components, including memory usage, concurrency, and throughput
- Contribute to the architecture and long-term technical direction of the trading platform
- Projects end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring
- Support production systems and rapidly resolve critical incidents
- Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and system reliability
Technology Environment
The role typically involves working with:
- C++ / Python / C# / Linux / Windows
- low-latency messaging and networking
- exchange APIs and FIX connectivity
- real-time market data feeds
- multithreaded and distributed systems
- performance optimization at CPU and memory level
Requirements
- 3 - 5+ years of software engineering experience
- strong background in C++
- experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems
- strong understanding of algorithms, memory models, concurrency, and operating systems
- experience in trading, financial markets, or other performance-critical environments
- ability to work directly with traders and business stakeholders
- ownership mindset and strong problem-solving skills
- pragmatic approach with a strong focus on quality and speed
- using AI to improve efficiency
Impact
Your work directly influences:
- trading performance
- execution quality
- risk control
- system resilience
- market connectivity
This is a role for engineers who enjoy solving difficult technical challenges in an environment where microseconds matter and software quality has immediate business impact.
Benefits & conditions
Salaris: €3.500,00 - €6.000,00 per maand