Senior Staff Engineer

Overview

Connecting clients to markets - and talent to opportunity. With 5,400+ employees and over 80,000 institutional, commercial, and payments clients, we operate from more than 80 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets - focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business Segment Overview

Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Responsibilities

Job Purpose

This role supports the Pricing team by designing, developing, and testing key projects that strengthen pricing and risk management. You will contribute to strategic initiatives to develop and optimize our C++ core pricing engines, actively offering ideas and solutions throughout the project lifecycle

Primary duties will include:

Perform detailed requirement, design and code reviews to ensure thorough due diligence is applied.

· Understand individual business requirements in order to design, develop and test effective solutions.

· Understand and implement required development guidelines, design standards and best practices at all times.

· Understand in detail the business operational process both before and after the impact of any software changes.

· Take responsibility for analysis, design and development to ensure due diligence is applied consistently to all software changes.

· Ensure software releases support continuous build and automated deployment practices.

· Provide prompt and knowledgeable assistance to business continuity and platform operations whenever requested.

· Work to identify risks and enhance control across the business

· Oversee the day-to-day operations of the junior data team members, participate in scrum and sprint rituals.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• 8+ years-experience in building low latency pricing engines in C++
• Experience in concurrency and threading and performance Optimization (smart pointers, Caching fundamentals, memory/thread pooling)
• Strong problem-solving skills & moderate to good mathematical ability
• Foundation knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and Designing for performance.
• Experience in optimization, maintenance and production support across large enterprises.
• Experience in mentoring a small team of 2-4 highly qualified technical performers
• Excellent communications skills and ability to work with business to extract critical concepts and transform into technical task items
• Ability to work and lead in an Agile methodology environment
• Ability to own end-to-end technical delivery of small and medium projects.
• Working knowledge of emerging generative AI technology is desired.
• Prior experience in capital markets or trading firms is a huge plus

Working Environment

• 4 Days from office