Senior C++ Developer

Title: Senior C++ Developer

Visa: Citizen, Pr, Open work Permit

Location: Toronto (4 days in the office)

End Client: CPPIB

Project description

You will work as a Senior Engineer in Public Markets Technology, partnering with investments' traders, investment professionals and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post trade activities. You will be responsible for hands on development and maintenance of solutions covering a number of asset classes including equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.
Through close partnership with investment professionals and operations, you will see firsthand how your software is impacting trade activities and delivering long-term value to the Fund for the benefit of 20 million contributors and beneficiaries.

Responsibilities

Work in collaboration with Investments' trading professionals, operations and technology teams to design and build solutions enabling trade activities across a number of asset classes including futures, equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.

Collaborate with team members to conceptualize, design and develop new software applications. Applications may be server-side enterprise solutions, GUI, or highly customized solutions developed for the specific needs of a business partner.

Create solutions tailored to business requirements aligned with the long-term architecture and technology strategy using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Cloud development.

Maintain and improve existing applications to support trading functions.

Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.

Prepare and document design and program specifications.

Manage timelines/deliverables towards the successful delivery of projects.

Develop the right IT behaviors to enable building scalable solutions within predictable time frames.

Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation.

Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.

Skills Must have

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
• Good understanding of trading, derivatives, trade life cycle with an eagerness to contribute to the systems that support them.
• Strong hands-on experience in Python, RestAPI, AWS Cloud and Kubernetes.
• Good working experience in C++.
• Strong working knowledge of Databases i.e. SQL.
• Experience in capital markets and eagerness to contribute to the systems that support trading activities.
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.
• Commitment to investments' guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.
• Experience in in DevOps and CI/CD.
• Experience with Capital Markets

Nice to have

• Experience in Terraform.
• Knowledge of Bloomberg and/or Murex trading platforms.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol.
• Experience in other programming languages like Java