Sr. SW Developer in New York, NY

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Job Title: SR. SW Developer

Job Description:
The Systems Architect is member of a small team of architects and senior developers who design, build and maintain applications that support the Companys broker/dealer subsidiaries business. The applications range from the Alternate Trading System (ATS), a dark liquidity pool and matching engine, to interfaces with clearing and back-office systems, algorithmic trading platforms, market data, various exchanges, the Companys FIX Network, etc., and are subject to stringent performance, availability and recoverability requirements. The team follows the Companys standard development process, largely based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP), supported by tools such as ClearQuest and ClearCase, and delivers the applications it builds to a central Technology organization responsible for accepting and operating the software into a data center environment. The primary programming language is C++ and the primary platform is UNIX (Solaris and Linux) but other languages, specially shell scripting and Perl, may be chosen depending on the task at hand.

Responsibilites:Frequent direct interaction with the business to collect and document requirements
Frequent direct interaction with the operations staff to provide training on new software and as a point of escalation for production issues
Design and hands-on coding and unit testing of new applications and new features for existing applications
Bug fixes for and re-factoring of existing applications
Modeling, simulation and benchmarking of solutions with the objective of maximizing systems performance under heavy transactional and market data load.
Minimum Job Requirements:
B.S. in Computer Science (M.S. is a plus) or equivalent professional experience
At least 7 years of experience in professional software design and development with at least 3 years in a senior developer position working in C++ on UNIX
Experience with complex multi-tier architectures
Experience developing multi-threaded applications
Experience with formal SDLC processes like RUP and OO notations like UML
Experience with software engineering disciplines (configuration management, defect tracking, project planning) and related tools (ClearQuest, ClearCase, Microsoft Project)
Excellent communication skills
Other Desireable Skills:
Experience designing and developing message based, low latency, high volume trading systems for equities
Experience working with the FIX protocol
Experience with TIBCO Rendezvous
Experience with de facto standard C++ libraries like STLport and boost
Experience with market data systems like Reuters RMDS
Experience with databases both on-disk and in-memory (Oracle, MySQL, TimesTen)



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