Senior C++ Software Engineer Market Data Visualization Platform - Remote (Fairfield)

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Role : Senior C++ Software Engineer Market Data Visualization Platform - Remote

Location : Stamford, CT

Job Summary

A leading global hedge fund is seeking a highly skilled Senior C++ Software Engineer to take

ownership of the firms proprietary market data visualization platform. The system is built as a

clientserver architecture, where the server component runs on Windows Server and manages real time and historical market data ingestion, caching, and distribution, while the client application runs

on Windows 11 and provides traders and researchers with a high-performance visualization and

analytics interface. This role sits at the intersection of low-latency market data engineering and real time analytics UX, supporting portfolio managers, researchers, and systematic trading teams with a

mission-critical tool that processes and displays streaming and historical market data from industry standard feeds.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, enhance, and extend the firms in-house C++ market data visualization platform across its clientserver architecture.
• Design and implement high-performance data ingestion, normalization, and caching mechanisms within the Windows Server backend.
• Integrate directly with industry-standard market data feeds (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, ICE / IDC, direct exchange feeds).
• Develop scalable components supporting time-series retrieval, historical playback, and tick-level analysis.
• Optimize the Windows 11 client application for performance, responsiveness, stability, and intuitive visualization.
• Improve system-wide performance, including multi-threading, networking, and memory optimizations across both client and server.
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and data engineers to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
• Ensure reliability and accuracy of displayed market data through validation, monitoring, and testing.
• Own the full software lifecycle : design, implementation, testing, deployment, documentation, and support.
• Define and maintain Security Policies for authentication and data entitlements
• Integrate with existing monitoring and alerting systems
• Document architecture and processes on Confluence
• Use JIRA for the tracking of development tasks
• Use GIT for lifecycle management of codebase

Job Requirements

Preferred Skills