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

• S trong 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.