C++ Developer

Responsibilities

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SG GSC) acts as a business solutions center for Société Générale, one of the largest European financial groups. We provide high quality professional services in over 35 countries in various business areas - Finance & Accounting, HR, IT and Corporate Operations. Our mission is to be a partner of choice, valued for owning, transforming and innovating with best-in-class talent. IT Filiere is part of the Centre and comprises four Perimeters: Retail Banking, Security and Infrastructure, Internal Support Applications and Investment Banking, with a total of more than 800 IT professionals.

Project Description:

GBSU – Global Business Service Unit, along with other service structures, is an entity which delivers high-quality services for the GBIS (Global Banking Investor Solutions) of Société Générale. It is a big organization spread around the globe with a central Hub in Paris.

From a geographical point of view, GBSU covers the most important financial places: New York, London, Hong-Kong and Paris. Nearshoring and offshoring are part of the Digital New Ambition and as of today there are 3 hubs on which GBIS relies on: Bangalore, Montreal and Bucharest, the GBSU Bucharest HUB being mainly for Paris based activities, but not limited to it.

The Market Access team is developing and maintaining exchange connectivity and high-performance front-to-back-office systems. All development is leveraging on a common framework developed in Asia, Europe and Americas. Increasing demands on the order management system and the data feed distribution architecture implies the implementation of new and innovative technical solutions. Those solutions often involve significant manpower, with very diverse technical skills (networking, system, real-time algorithm, market data…).

Specifically, you will be required to:

·       Develop, maintain and enhance high performance applications that enable Societe Generale to trade on various financial markets (e.g. Deutsche Borse, London Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, etc.)

·       Study new business & IT requests (understand user needs, suggest solutions , etc)

·       Be proactive by proposing enhancements from which the business/IT can benefit

·       Build quality into our software through extensive and automatic testing and continuous build

·       Communicate with Exchanges & Brokers, assess the impact of their system or API changes

·       Continuous technical upgrade of our setup

·       Ensure that release management / change management processes are followed

·       Be responsible of the 2nd and 3rd level of support

·       Collaborate with others teams: networking, systems, quality insurance, support, architects, others development teams, infrastructure teams (Systems, Networks, Database);

·       External contacts: exchanges of interest for SG business.

Profile required

Required/Must have:

·       Strong object-oriented programming skills

·       Strong technical skills in C/C++, LINUX, client server development

·       Strong knowledge on messaging technologies, network protocols (TCP/IP), socket programming, concurrent programming

·       GNU development tools (gcc, gdb, make)

·       Python scripting

·       Bash scripting

·       Source control tools

·       Previous significant experience as a C++ developer (at least 3 years)

·       B.S degree in computer science

·       Written communication skills

Desired/Plus:

·       Unit testing tools

·       C++11

·       Knowledge of GIT, CVS

·       Cmake

·       Jira

·       Jenkins

·       Basic knowledge in financial instruments

·       A master degree or equivalent