C Developer

Jettison is representing a company who is immediately seeking C programmers who are not satisfied with solutions that are good enough and who have a drive to push the envelope of what is technically possible. This position is WFH for the foreseeable future. This is a hands-on position spanning the entire development stack of our bleeding edge ultra-low latency trading systems from idea generation all the way to support. If you are excited about finance, have a passion for technology, and a drive to learn, then we want to talk to you! What You’ll Do

• Perform full life cycle development and deployment of C applications and libraries for exchange gateways, trading strategy execution, risk management and trade reporting
• Develop systems to maintain, analyze and improve performance, integrity and reliability of existing applications
• Investigate and fix problems with production systems in real-time
• Construct experiments and analyze data to identify ways to improve technical performance and new trading opportunities, ensuring that results are valid and reproducible
• Collaborate with technical and business peers to develop new trading strategies and systems
• Communicate technical knowledge to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Top-notch C/C coding skills, with a solid foundation in data structures
• Excitement for developing and dedication to testing
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Passion for writing clean high quality code and the ability to provide, and take, code review feedback
• Willingness to collaborate and learn from other team members
• Ability to take ownership over projects and be self-directed on what needs to happen next
• Strong communication skills with both engineers and people without a technical background
• Experience with SQL database, mutli-thread programming, STL & Boost
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent.