Software Engineer
WFH Flexible Paris, France
Description

Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading systems, and future-proof technology. Exegy serves as a trusted partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, and financial services technology firms around the globe. Headquartered in St. Louis with regional offices in North America, the UK/Europe and Asia Pacific, Exegy has the global footprint to deliver world-class support and managed services to its customer base of elite financial market participants.


Job Summary

At the heart of a mixed software and hardware team you’ll be a key member of the Trading agile team of Enyx responsible for trading solutions around the following products:

  • nxFeed: A full feature feed handler which streamlines market data application development by processing data feeds on FPGA and making them available to applications via a simple, normalized API
  • nxAccess:  A fully featured execution engine with an FPGA algorithm sandbox allowing users to preload orders in hardware, receive market data then trigger & update those orders then send to the trading venue – with the speed and performance of hardware assisted by the flexibility of software

You will work in a team consisting of software & hardware engineers, driven by one Engineering Manager in close relation with the Team Product Owner. You will be involved on all phases of the projects to guarantee an optimized and performing development that responds to the constraints of last generation FPGA development. 


Working for Mohamed, the team engineering manager, and in close collaboration with the software architects and Tech Leader, your main responsibilities will be:

  • Help define the product architecture in collaboration with the rest of the team
  • Analyze technical impacts and specs for key steps in the software development
  • Improve the delivery environment and workflow
  • Collaborate with the FPGA and C++ teams to ensure sufficient test coverage of the products 
  • Rationalize the management of quality metrics to identify and alert to problems and possible anomalies
  • Maintenance, analysis and communication of the test results and KPIs
  • Assist the Technical Project Manager in the preparation of client deliveries in order to guarantee an increasing level of quality

Qualifications

  • Degree in computer science engineering
  • At least 5 years of professional experience
  • Development competencies and capacity to evolve the QA framework (Python)
  • Command of Linux work environments (ssh, Bash)
  • Solid knowledge of systems and networks
  • Capable of creating extensive and comprehensive functional test scenarios
  • Technical environment: Python, GoogleTest, Networks, Scripting, Trading, Jenkins, Git
  • Professional English and French

More About You

  • You are passionate about complex, cross-domain problem solving and able to see the big picture
  • You have a desire to understand capital markets and the financial services industry with a focus on trading and the management of market data
  • You are passionate about working on very technical and innovative products
  • You have a dynamic and rigorous work-ethic with the ability to work in a team-oriented, technical, collaborative environment
  • You like to be involved in technical subjects and contributing to solve problems, be it in a team or managing issues/troubleshooting
  • You are a critical thinker, life-long learner and enjoy discovering new technologies and solutions 


What's in it for you?

  • You’ll be an integral member of a team where you will help define the product roadmap
  • You’ll have an opportunity to challenge yourself and avoid the status quo with a goal of quality, performance and operational excellence
  • We offer perks that will help you find your work-life balance and professional comfort: offices located in the center of Paris (Arts et Métiers), flexibility both in working hours and office/work from home, dedicated budget for your IT-comfort, top health coverage, 35 days Paid Time Off (holidays+RTT), access to our fitness center, indoor soccer with colleagues, video game tournaments, team building events