Senior C++ Developer

Alter Solutions Portugal is an IT Consultancy Company, promoter of Digital Transformation, part of the Alter Solutions Group, created in 2006, in Paris.

In 2022, Alter Solutions joined the act digital group, constituting a global community of talent in Technology, with presence in thirteen countries: Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Serbia. Also in 2023, we were certified as a Great Place to Work©.

In Portugal, we partner with over 120 clients and a team of over 500 people, working in projects for industries as diverse as banking, insurance, transportation, aviation, energy, and telecom.

Headquarters of the Nearshore IT center, Alter Solutions Portugal has a dedicated team of around 30 specialized professionals, integrated into projects with several internationally renowned clients.

We are looking for talented C++ developers to join Electronic Equities team to work on a leading ultra-low latency algorithmic trading platform. The platform is built on top of the best available hardware and network solutions as well as state-of-the-art software technologies including: direct access to network cards to bypass the standard TCP/IP stack, explicit assignment of hot threads to physical processors to achieve the top performance and use the most recent C++(C++17/20) language features to get to the edge of impossible. And one step beyond.

The role includes development of new Algo models, Algo framework, market data distribution and ultra-low latency exchange connectors as a part of a global joined IT/business team.

Location: Lisbon based but will work with colleagues in all main locations globally.

Main Tasks:

• Software development of eTrading platform modules, components and utils                                                 
• Be responsible for the platform including dev, support, CI/CD, bug fixing                                                        
• Coordinate work with global engineering, business and support teams                                              
• Innovation is expected as much of the work is ‘greenfield’                                                      

Technical Skills:

• Recent C++ (any of 11/14/17/20), STL and Boost                                                         
• Understanding of design & architecture principles, common data structures and algorithms                                                     
• Confident Linux user including Linux dev tools (cmake, gcc, gdb)                                                          
• (Nice to have) Unix scripts, bash, python                                                         
• (Nice to have) Knowledge of FIX protocol or other Fintech protocols                                                  

Soft Skills:

• Good written and spoken English                                                        
• Ability to work as a part of a globally distributed team