Pico fuels the global capital markets community by providing exceptional market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions. As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
The Role
This is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Pico’s entire product range. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive innovative work on-going and an exciting vision to fulfill.
Pico’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.
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 and providing solutions for consumers of real-time and historical, raw and normalised market data - then Pico is what you are looking for.
Requirements:
- Bachelors' Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 4-10 years of development experience
- Expert proficiency in C++ development under Linux is required.
- Experience in using python, shell scripting, makefiles, etc
- Understanding of algorithms and design patterns
- Multi-threaded application development
- Automated testing (unit testing, integration testing)
- Linux-based development environments, including tools such as gdb and valgrind
- IP networking knowledge
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 constructive feedback
- 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
- Ability to solve issues seen in the field from very limited data
Working Arrangements
This is a Hybrid position with [weekly time in the office with the flexibility of working from home. Though travel may be required from time to time, it is not expected to be regular or frequent.
IMPORTANT DATA PRIVACY INFORMATION:
This position is available with PICO GLOBAL LTD. The controller of your personal data will be PICO GLOBAL LTD.
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Be a part of Pico Family
Pico is an equal opportunity employer. Pico does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at Pico are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.
