C++ Senior Developer - Market Data Content Timișoara

C++ Senior Developer - Market Data Content
Timişoara
Timișoara, Timiș County, Romania

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Developer to help us build and maintain our exchange connectivity software.

Market Data powers all of Morningstar, as well as our clients so having the best of technology to do this is critical to the company’s success. We receive billions of messages every day from our direct financial exchange connections, which we process into a form useable by our customers. At present, we process over 40 billion messages per day and with data volumes significantly increasing
-
- year, you can imagine how this needs a high level of engineering skill to keep it under control.



You will need to work in an agile,
- functional team of developers and testers to build and maintain our exchange connectivity components. You’ll need to be happy working in short cycles, with frequent deliveries while improving the overall quality of the development process.

Job Responsibilities

Work within a team of approx. 4 developers and 2 QA, focused on building and maintaining our exchange connectivity software. You will need to be rigorous in writing efficient code and encourage continuous improvement of how we build, test and deploy our system. You'll be happy working with more junior developers, reviewing their work and helping them improve. There will be some
-
- hours 3rd line support, but we try to keep this to a minimum as we have a dedicated operations team who handle most issues.



Some key examples of the sort of work the team does:

+ Data feed development for high volume low latency exchange connections

+ Development and maintenance of key libraries used by the entire team

+ Development of key underlying transport protocols for transmission of data

+ Working with Dev
Ops to improve automation in the development cycle

Qualifications

+ A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a software development or similar essential.

+ Experienced in C/C++ development (Typically a minimum of 5 years)

+ Extensive experienced with current communication protocols (specifically TCP/IP and multicast)

+ Experience of development on Windows platforms

+ Experience of the full software development lifecycle

Nice to have

+ Knowledge of automated testing and deployment techniques used in a CI/CD environment

Hybrid Work

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate
- person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate
- person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.