Sr. Software Engineer (C++, Python) - US

Eventus

3d•Remote

About The Position

Eventus Software is looking to hire a highly capable Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic, distributed team. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our Validus product, applying software development best practices using a variety of languages, tools and technologies. Validus processes billions of records a day for a variety of financial institutions and provides trade surveillance, monitoring, and analysis capabilities to improve the overall health, robustness, and transparency of financial markets.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline.
5+ years of experience solving complex problems with sophisticated distributed, data-driven, highly performant software applications.
Adept at writing excellent code in several languages (at least C++ and Python) and comfortable switching between them as needed.
Experience working with AWS or other cloud technology stacks and understand how to most effectively leverage cloud architectures.
Experience improving development, quality, release, and deployment processes.
Experience both integrating 3rd party software systems, and writing components from scratch, and can effectively evaluate decisions about which directions are most appropriate.
Experienced working with relational databases and have a solid understanding of SQL and core relational database concepts.
Experience using Linux and are comfortable and effective working in a shell environment.
Know how to write a solid shell script and occasional one-liner, but also recognize which things deserve to be made into something that’s not a shell script.
Experience working with git or similar source code management software.
Able to work effectively remotely.
Able to work effectively both independently and collaboratively.
Excellent communication and task management skills.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and improve complex data-driven software components and systems, using a variety of technologies and tools, with focus in C++ and Python.
Help drive architectural direction by evaluating potential solutions and technologies, with an emphasis on leveraging cloud technologies and architectures.
Develop testing infrastructure and write automated tests.
Work closely with the operations team to assist with debugging and remediating live production issues, with an emphasis on incorporating relevant improvements back into the product.
Develop internal tools to improve our deployment, administration, and monitoring capabilities.
Work closely with the product team to understand and refine feature specifications.
Develop and refine company standards, best practices, and processes for software development.
Help interview candidates for other roles on the team.