C++ Engineer
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C++ Engineer
Corvil, a Pico company
Kraków
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Junior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Remote
Tech stack
C++
C++17
Bash
Linux
STL
Networking
Job description
Online interview
Who We Are
Pico provides agile and transparent technology solutions to the Financial Markets community including infrastructure hosting, network connectivity, market data, Corvil analytics, and cloud services giving your organization the freedom to move fast. 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, Dublin, Madrid, Krakow, Singapore and Tokyo.
Warsaw and Poland Expansion
Given the success of our Krakow office, we are now expanding to build out a high-class team in Warsaw and across Poland. We are excited to speak with candidates who will be happy to work remotely initially with a view to setting up an office location in Warsaw when the time is right. We especially want to speak with candidates who are keen to work in a startup environment.
We are also interested to speak to candidates based across Poland who are interested in working remotely full time with occasional visits to the office.
The Role
This is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Corvil’s entire product range. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive innovative work on-going and an exciting vision to fulfill. Corvil’s technology is used in many ways today including:
Pico provides agile and transparent technology solutions to the Financial Markets community including infrastructure hosting, network connectivity, market data, Corvil analytics, and cloud services giving your organization the freedom to move fast. 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, Dublin, Madrid, Krakow, Singapore and Tokyo.
Warsaw and Poland Expansion
Given the success of our Krakow office, we are now expanding to build out a high-class team in Warsaw and across Poland. We are excited to speak with candidates who will be happy to work remotely initially with a view to setting up an office location in Warsaw when the time is right. We especially want to speak with candidates who are keen to work in a startup environment.
We are also interested to speak to candidates based across Poland who are interested in working remotely full time with occasional visits to the office.
The Role
This is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Corvil’s entire product range. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive innovative work on-going and an exciting vision to fulfill. Corvil’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 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 - capturing, decoding, analysing and indexing at 40Gb/s and more - then Corvil is what you are looking for.
Requirements
- Third Level Computer Science or Computer Engineering Degree
- 2-4 years of development experience
- A strong proficiency in C++ development under Linux is required.
- A suitable candidate should be familiar with:
- High-performance systems and multi-threaded application developmen
- Automated testing (unit testing, integration testing)
- Linux-based development environments, including tools such as gdb and valgrind
Knowledge or experience with the following is a distinct advantage:
- STL
- Boost
- Python
- Experience with Continuous Integration (Jenkins), including the delivery of CI aligned test automation
- Financial trading protocols e.g. FIX
- IP networking
- Packet capture analysis using tools such as Wireshark
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
- Are able to solve issues seen in the field from very limited data
What we offer
- Health Insurance
- Multisport card
- 26 days paid vacation
- Sociable, fun loving team
- Flexible working practices
- Kitchen that is fully stocked with breakfast, lunch, fresh fruit and amazing coffee*
- Training and development opportunities
- Friendly and helpful environment with opportunities for personal development
- Competitive salary dependent on experience and qualifications
- Working with cutting-edge technologies