VP, System Development, C/C++, LME
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing View all jobs
- Shenzhen, Guangdong
- Permanent
- Full-time
Last year, 149 million lots were traded, equating to $15 trillion and 3.5 billion tonnes notional, with a market open interest high of 1.9 million lots.A member of HKEX Group, the LME brings together participants from the physical industry and the financial community to create a robust and regulated market where there is always a buyer and a seller, where there is always a price and where there is always the opportunity to transfer or take on risk – 24 hours a day.Investors value the LME as a vibrant futures exchange but also for its close links to industry. The possibility of physical delivery via the world-wide network of LME-approved warehouses makes it the perfect hedging venue for industry and provides a reference price they trust.The Exchange provides producers and consumers of metal with a physical market of last resort and, most importantly, with the ability to hedge against the risk of rising and falling world metal prices.Overall Purpose of Role:The purpose of this role is to augment our matching engine team with additional technical and product expertise in the matching engine space.The role includes extending our matching engine capabilities to support additional business opportunities and products, to extend the testing capabilities of the matching engine infrastructure so our engineers are able to code full scenarios in their IDE’s and to create frameworks and capabilities for us to accurately measure our latency in industry leading patterns.Job Duties:Responsibilities:You will add a deep level of technical sophistication and understanding to our existing matching engine technical stack including bringing in industry best practices on latency monitoring, low latency tuning and optimization, fully automated testing and a culture of green in build means good for production.
- 10+ years of experience with low latency tuning, kernel bypass networking,
- 10 years+ of building/extending high throughput messaging systems and middleware
- 15+ years of expert level C/ C++ programming
- Deep knowledge of matching engine architectures & optimization
- Knowledge and experience of implementing full system testing frameworks for low latency systems.
- Deep knowledge of multicast/unicast network protocols
- Deep knowledge of the Linux kernel, including the ability to performance test the kernel itself
- Proven industry experience in implementing packet capture based latency monitoring solutions
- Degree in Computer Science, IT or related disciplines.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in software development in C/ C++
- Deep experience with low latency tuning, kernel bypass networking, building/extending high throughput messaging systems and middleware
- Proficient in Python
- Proven experience in industry leading matching engine solutions
- Experience in industry best practice for automation of testing in low latency systems
- Experience in building low latency frameworks
- Deep knowledge of the Linux kernel and its internals, specially WRT networking and process management.