Senior Software Engineer FXGO

Bloomberg New Energy Finance; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in Greater London is seeking a skilled engineer to join their FXGO Trade Lifecycle and Streaming teams. The role involves developing real-time foreign exchange trading applications, ensuring stability, and working on innovative solutions that drive trade execution. Candidates should have experience in C++, a relevant degree, and an aptitude for solving complex problems. This position offers the opportunity to work on high-availability systems that impact clients globally.

Qualifications

• Experience building production ready applications in C++.
• An aptitude for problem solving and desire to build software solutions.
• Good working knowledge of databases and messaging queues.

Responsibilities

• Engineer foundational systems that drive innovation and ensure stability.
• Develop and maintain real-time foreign exchange trading applications.
• Build highly scalable and distributed systems for order execution.

Skills

C++ programming

Problem solving

Production ready applications

Software development lifecycle

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

Apache Kafka

Job description

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 drives Bloomberg Terminal sales growth and generates additional revenue through transactions. We are currently hiring into the FXGO Trade Lifecycle team and FXGO Streaming team.

The FX Trade Lifecycle team designs, builds, and scales the critical infrastructure that captures and processes millions of high-volume trade events in real time. This core system powers essential workflows, from live trading blotters to vital regulatory reporting, and serves as the trusted, event-driven data source for applications across the entire organization. Joining this team is an opportunity to engineer the foundational systems that drive innovation and ensure the stability of a core part of Bloomberg's business.

The FXGO Streaming team develops and maintains a real-time foreign exchange trading application. This system handles high volumes of pricing data and executes trades with minimal latency. They utilize geographically distributed data centers to reduce trade latency for a global client base, ensuring swift execution for traders worldwide. Continuous optimization of these systems is a primary focus.

The FXGO Block Trading team allows clients to execute a large collection of orders simultaneously. It intelligently combines hundreds of orders in a way that provides the most value to our clients and reduces overhead. Simultaneous execution of orders demands building highly scalable and distributed systems, which is our primary expertise.

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

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