C++ Software Engineer - Market Data
About The Position
Talan is a global consulting and technology group dedicated to accelerating clients' transformation through technology, data, and innovation. They are a Certified Great Place to Work and are on track to reach €1 billion in revenue by 2025. Their philosophy is 'Positive Innovation—leveraging technology to benefit people and society.' This role is for a self-driven Senior Market Data Engineer who will take end-to-end ownership of core components of their market data stack. This is a high-impact role with direct influence on trading outcomes through the design and delivery of performance-critical infrastructure. The engineer will work closely with other engineering teams to ensure the market data platform scales with business growth while maintaining the highest standards of resiliency, precision, and speed.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience in modern C++ within performance-critical systems (Currently on 20/23, starting enable 26 features)
- Deep understanding of large-scale, real-time, low-latency systems, including multithreading, memory management, and networking and application performance assessment, latency analysis, profiling, OS tuning, etc.
- Experience building or maintaining market data feed handlers, order book systems, or exchange connectivity infrastructure.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex, real-time production environments.
- Familiarity with exchange protocols (e.g., ITCH, PITCH, iMpact, OUCH, etc.).
- Demonstrated ownership of systems operating in production environments.
- Ability to balance performance, correctness, and maintainability in pragmatic engineering decisions.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and own high-performance market data systems, including feed handlers, order book construction, distribution frameworks, and research-facing tools and services.
- Drive exchange protocol upgrades, venue onboarding, and behavioral changes while preserving strict determinism and latency guarantees.
- Expand market and asset class coverage to support trading growth across equities, futures, options, and adjacent products.
- Continuously improve data quality, completeness, and internal consistency across the platform.
- Optimize systems for throughput, latency, and resiliency under extreme production load.
- Act as a strong production owner, independently driving projects from design through deployment and long-term operational support.
- Partner with trading and quantitative research teams to translate business requirements into robust, performant technical solutions.
- Contribute to architectural direction and raise engineering standards across the team.
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- 15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
- 8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
- Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
- Voluntary STD and LTD
- Commuter/transit benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
