• Job Description

  Req#: 90368121

  eRates Low Latency Developer
  New York

  As a Barclays eRates Low Latency Developer, you will work in a dynamic front office technology team developing solutions for the Rates and Credit Trading Desks. Within this role, you will be accountable for designing and building low-latency software components. You will also ensure solutions are delivered on time and are of high quality.

  Salary / Rate Minimum: $155,000
  Salary / Rate Maximum: $220,000

  The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

  Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

  We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

  Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

  What will you be doing?

  • Developing solutions both tactical and strategic problems to meet business requirements
  • Producing code that is appropriate for a low-latency C++/java platform
  • Comprehending requirements and help the team to deliver high quality solutions
  • Providing estimates for tasks, including design, development, technical debt, and testing
  • Participating in code reviews and architectural discussions
  • Building automated testing tools to exercise functionality, performance, and capacity of code

  What we’re looking for:

  • Advanced and working knowledge of C++ language and its internals
  • Experience in writing low-latency multithreaded applications on Linux
  • Solid grasp of multi-threading, memory management, caching, networking, distributed systems, algorithms and/or operating systems
  • Experience in low latency techniques such as cpu affinities, tcp offloading, memory mapping and the like

  Skills that will help you in the role :

  • Exposure to electronic trading, financial markets, and Market data
  • Experience working in geographically distributed environment
  • Familiarity with Python or other rapid prototyping languages

  Where will you be working?

  You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 32-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.

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