Principal Software Engineer

#WeAreTradeStation

Who We Are:

TradeStation is an online brokerage firm seeking to level the playing field for self-directed investors and traders, empowering them to claim their individual financial edge. At TradeStation, we're continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible, encouraging out-of-the-box thinking and relentless search for innovation.

What We Are Looking For:

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a passion for high performance computing. You will work in a dynamic highly challenging and always evolving environment. You will help evolve our data pipeline as a member of Market Data team. The team is dedicated to providing very large amounts of highly quality data in at blazing speed.

Bring your passion and skills to solve interesting problems and have an immediate impact. Join us!

Success in this role requires that you be a proactive, self-starter with a lot of energy and an eagerness to learn. Day to day you may find yourself in Windows or Linux, on a server in AWS or ‘on-prem’, and using C++ and, sometimes, C#.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design and develop services to support a high throughput ‘data network’
• Maintain and improve existing systems with a focus on optimizing both systems and workflows
• Develop new programs and assure deployment of a quality product
• Be a driver of innovation, technical thought leader, and mentor to other engineers
• Analyze current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting
• Utilize tools and techniques involved in performance of essential functions of programming
• Analyze system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications
• Document code consistently throughout the development process
• Conduct code reviews
• Assist testers and support personnel as needed to determine system problems
• Participate in Agile planning and execution

The Skills You Bring:

• Experience with distributed and scalable software architectures
• Knowledgeable about multi-threading, inter-process communications and event handling
• Experience with communication protocols (low level TCP/UDP/IP, WebSockets, Protobufs, HTTP)
• Familiarity working in a fluid Agile environment and demonstrated success with structured testing practices such as unit testing, regression testing, TDD and continuous delivery
• Ability to solve problems quickly and thoroughly by thinking outside the box
• Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment
• Expert knowledge of data structures, distributed/cloud architectures
• Eye for detail, eye for efficiency improvements through automation
• Overall knowledge of the computing environment at large, e.g. typical uses and user populations of operating systems, communications protocols, hardware platforms, etc.
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Experience with multi-threading
• Demonstrated experience with code for high performance
• Experience with development and troubleshooting with TCP/UDP
• C# development experience preferred
• Experience with SQL, Redis, Grafana, CI/CD, Octopus, and Kafka preferred
• Linux development experience preferred
• Brokerage/trading platform experience preferred
• Knowledge of financial markets/trading preferred

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 8 years strong C++ coding experience
• 1+ years of experience with Cloud Providers (AWS preferred)

What We Offer:

• Collaborative work environment
• Competitive Salaries
• Yearly bonus
• Comprehensive benefits for you and your family starting Day 1
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible working environment
• TradeStation Account employee benefits, as well as full access to trading education materials
• Pay Range (US) $150-180K (Countries outside of the US have differing ranges in accordance with local labor markets)

_TradeStation provides equal employment opportunities to current and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, disability, handicap, citizenship, veteran or marital status, or any other legally recognized status entitled to protection under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

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