Lead Software Engineer (C++)

About Real-Time Team

We are building a new team here in Bangkok. This is a long term multi-year plan to form a strong team to provide system-level expertise in developing low-latency, high-throughput as well as high performance network-based solutions that help LSEG in capturing, filtering, and aggregating market data as well as distributing them to relevant systems/components for consumption within our real-time ecosystem called "Elektron".

The team focuses on Linux-based platform and addresses anything that factors into performance, latency, and architectural aspects. From offline, network-based, on-premise or cloud delivery, we involve them all.

We closely coordinate and work with the team in US. This means we provide suitable working styles that match the team's day-to-day operations.

You will be the initial founding members of the team! You will be part of the effort to shape and build a team with right culture as well as forming a system-level programming & Linux community in LSEG Bangkok! If this sounds exciting, please apply.

Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies within LSEG and how they relate to various parts of the business.
• Develops tools and applications by producing clean and efficient code, may also review others' code when required and suggest improvements or resolutions where applicable.
• Handles own workload and promotes an inclusive and open culture.
• Develops knowledge and expertise in software development and other domains to understand linkages and dependencies enhancing alignments.
• Leads design work and planning for user journeys.
• Establishes an understanding of strategy and culture, and how they impact own work.
• Completes the delivery of given tasks with some guidance and oversight.
• Builds strong relationships with their team and colleagues and collaborates closely.
• Communicates clearly and with precision in a concise format and timely manner.
• Takes initiative to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications and projects.

Job responsibilities

• Design and implements software modules in C++ included build system scripting, unit testing, integration testing, performance testing along with software packaging and configuration management.
• Participates in code/design reviews.
• Contributes toward product and internal documentation, technical specifications, software documentation and unit test plans.
• Assists in resolution of field problems as needed.
• Partners with QA (Quality Assurance) to ensure high quality software.
• Partners with owner, and collaborators of projects to deliver, support, and maintaining products.
• Opportunity to mentor junior-to-mid level engineers while the team is growing.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Professional qualification or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of C++11 with at least one or more of scripting language like Python, or Bash.
• Practical knowledge of design patterns to apply to development.
• Good experience working in software development life cycle.
• 5+ years experience of professional software development.
• Have awareness in performance implication of various libraries in use included C++ STL to make decision whether to use 3rd party library or implement our own.
• Experience developing in C++ in a multi-threaded environment.
• Strong experience of application or backend development on Linux with comfortability in using Linux command lines & various tools.
• Experience in using Makefile, and CMake build system.
• Knowledge and experience in at least one of several kinds of real-time project development using C++ such as uses multi-threaded code in business application, embedded systems / IoT delivering real-world products, game development, network-based application striving for either low-latency or high-throughput such as web server, packet filtering, or trading related application.
• Good understanding of operating system concepts included memory management, caching system, etc.
• Hands-on experience with network programming (e.g., sockets, TCP/IP, UDP, multicast) using directly platform API e.g. socket API.
• Strong English writing & verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work partially in US hours.

Nice to have

• Experience developing on Windows.
• Experience in developing with either one of Rust, Go, C#, Java or Python, or other system-programming languages.
• Not afraid to be dealing with legacy code base (C++98) of some of our projects with eyes towards modernization to C++11 onwards.
• Experience in directly using Linux POSIX API e.g. multi-threaded with thread library, file system, I/O multiplexing, signal processing, etc.
• Have exposure to market data in financial sector, or having been exposed to investment, trading.