C Developer - Technical Lead

Job purpose We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead with deep expertise in C programming and extensive experience building, enhancing, and modernizing trading platforms within Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) environments. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on engineering capability with architecture leadership, system design expertise, and a proven track record of optimizing high-performance, low-latency applications used by front-office trading businesses. This role will drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, platform modernization, performance tuning, and engineering excellence across mission-critical trading systems.

Key responsibilities • Lead architecture, design, and development of complex trading and market-facing platforms. • Define system architecture, scalability, resilience, and performance strategies for business-critical applications. • Drive modernization of legacy trading systems while ensuring business continuity and platform stability. • Partner with traders, quants, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. • Lead performance engineering initiatives including latency reduction, capacity optimization, memory management, and concurrency design. • Establish engineering standards, architecture principles, design reviews, and code quality practices. • Mentor senior developers and provide technical leadership across distributed teams. • Support production stability, root-cause analysis, and continuous platform improvement initiatives..

Key competencies • Strong hands-on development experience in C (mandatory). • Strong experience in C++ and/or C# (preferred). • Deep understanding of: • System Design & Architecture • Distributed Systems • Event-Driven Architectures • Multithreading & Concurrency • High-Performance Computing • Network Programming • Memory Management & Optimization • Performance Profiling & Latency Analysis Domain Experience • Strong experience within Capital Markets, preferably FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities). • Experience working on: • Trading Platforms • Market Data Systems • Order Management & Execution Systems • Pricing & Risk Platforms • Low-Latency Transaction Processing Systems • Understanding of Fixed Income products, trading workflows, market data, pricing and trade lifecycle processes.