• Compensation: $140,000 - $165,000
• Prestigious company in suburban Philadelphia location.
• Outstanding benefits, including free food and snacks daily, free on-premises gym,  a very casual work environment, and of course, comprehensive medical/dental insurance, etc..
• Relocation Assistance.

Our client is a privately-held financial services firm in suburban Philadelphia and is seeking a software developer to help build their high-frequency market data distribution platform. You will work closely with strategy and infrastructure development teams, building a multi-threaded C++, high-performance, and low-latency platform Windows architecture.  The bulk of your programming will be in C++, and you will also have a chance to work with C#, Python, and a range of different middleware products.

Responsibilities:

• Research, design, and develop functional and technical design specifications using C++.
• Create and modify procedures and practices in an autonomous fashion.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.
• Engage in problem definition, decomposition, and solutions definition within the scope of the application.
• Provide support for applications once they are deployed into the production environment.

• Experience with and a demonstrated understanding of Object-oriented design and software development in a high-performance/high throughput environment using C++ (preferably on Windows).
• Knowledge of networking concepts and/or network programming.
• Thorough understanding of full life-cycle development and performance optimization/latency reduction methodologies.
• Familiarity with Linux is a plus.
• Experience in the financial services industry is not required.