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As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.\nPico provides agile and transparent technology solutions to the Financial Markets community including infrastructure hosting, network connectivity, raw and normalized market data, Corvil analytics, and cloud services giving organizations the freedom to move fast. As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices all around the globe. \nThe Role \nThis is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Pico’s entire product range. Our Redline Trading Solutions provides ultra-low latency market data and order execution solutions that solve the toughest latency and throughput challenges in today’s equities, options, futures and foreign exchange markets. Our Corvil Analytics technology is used extensively by market participants to understand various aspects of their performance and execution, at both network and business level, in real-time and retrospectively. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive, on-going innovative work and an exciting vision to fulfil . \nWe need brilliant engineers to help bring this technology into new markets and new deployment models. 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Though travel may be required from time to time, it is not expected to be regular or frequent. \nIMPORTANT DATA PRIVACY INFORMATION:\nThis position is available with PICO GLOBAL LTD. The controller of your personal data will be PICO GLOBAL LTD.\nGiven the nature of the job, the position and the nature of the employer and the services it provides, we are entitled to possibly check the candidates' criminal record, as required by law and other regulations applicable to us.\nFor further information on what personal data we collect, how we will process your personal data and your rights with respect to your personal data please read our Pico Job Candidate Privacy Notice, View Here.\nBe a part of Pico Family\nPico is an equal opportunity employer. Pico does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. 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