Head of High Frequency Infrastructure Engineering Tier1 Bank recruitment

Main Duties

Interface with multiple business groups using low latency, high frequency, systematic techniques of trading
Drive the architectural vision of the High Frequency Engineering team
Work closely with application development and business users to develop performance targets for latency, determinism and throughput, be focused on delivery
Iterate quickly through candidate solutions
Optimize application interaction with hardware components (network, processor, memory) and operating system through tuning, alternate technologies/techniques and refactoring.

Essential Requirements

5+ years of experience in financial markets and applications, including market data feeds and API's, order routing protocols and the complete front-to-back trading flow.
Software development with C/C++/Java and performance profiling tools and techniques.
Operating system internals, especially Linux, with intimate knowledge kernel fundamentals (scheduling, threads, protocol stack). Must be comfortable to patch/modify kernel and other open source software to optimize behaviour
Experience with processor architecture and micro-architecture (Intel/AMD) as well as supporting eco-system (QuickPath, PCIExpress, Hypertransport).
Must be able to evaluate vendor platform solutions (Servers/Blades) to identify suitability to low latency environments.
Network technologies from low level (10-Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband) to protocols (iWARP/RDMA, TCP/UDP)
Must have prior experience working with various packet processing and hardware acceleration technologies (FPGA, NPU, GPU, ASIC), n hardware description language skills (Verilog/VHDL) including simulation and timing analysis tools and techniques

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with high frequency environments, such as Exchange co-location, device drivers is a plus
Must be comfortable to patch/modify kernel and other open source software to optimize behaviour
Experience with acceleration techniques for computation or low latency a plus. These techniques include GPU, FPGA, and specialized processors
Ability to communicate vision and ideas effectively to peers

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