Senior Software Engineer - Service Reliability
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026.
As a member of the Service Reliability team, you will focus on the evolution and optimization of a high-performance core trading platform. You will balance the maintenance of legacy systems with the engineering of high-impact performance and memory optimizations using C++17 and Data-Oriented Design.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineering improvements and optimizations for existing performance and memory bottlenecks
- Build and integrate tools to improve telemetry, logging, and real-time monitoring of the core trading platform
- Work closely with other engineers to design and apply systems-level design patterns
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential Experience
- Substantial professional experience with >= C++17
- Software development from the perspective of data-oriented design
- Proficiency with Linux at a systems-level for developing real-time software (lock-free and wait-free design patterns)
- GDB coredump debugging experience
- Experience utilizing AI-assisted coding tools (Claude code)
- Understanding of multi-threading and memory ordering concepts
- Enjoyment of refactoring, algorithms, and general code-improvement
Desirable Experience
- Basic experience with Python
- Familiarity with financial markets, exchange protocols (FIX), or low-latency networking
- Experience with Valgrind, gprof, perf, or similar performance analysis tools
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.
Health & Financial Security:
- Pension contributions
Time Off & Flexibility:
- Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities and strengthens our company culture.
- 25 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days.
- One dedicated day per year for volunteering.
- Two professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development.
- An additional PTO day added during milestone anniversary years.
- Generous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).
Work-Life Support & Resources:
- Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.
- Milestone anniversary bonuses.
Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:
- Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums, healthy meal delivery programs, or smoking cessation support).
Our Culture:
- Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.
Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) is a global capital markets platform services company providing market-leading technology for the end-to-end trading operations of Tier 1 banks, brokerages, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. With its roots in listed derivatives, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company delivers “multi-X” solutions, with “X” representing asset classes, functions, workflows, and geographies. This multi-X approach features trade execution services across futures and options, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX), and cryptocurrencies, augmented by solutions for data and analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA); quantitative trading; compliance and trade surveillance; clearing and post-trade allocation; and infrastructure services. The award-winning TT platform ecosystem also helps exchanges deliver innovative solutions to their market participants and technology companies to distribute their complementary offerings to Trading Technologies’ clients.
Trading Technologies is backed by leading global investment firms Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest and most experienced software investors, and 7Ridge, a global growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled businesses.
This investment supports Trading Technologies’ continued focus on product innovation, platform scalability, and long-term growth for customers and partners worldwide.