Senior Backend Developer (C#)

Luxoft - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Backend Developer (C#) will play a crucial role in the market data team for a US-based hedge fund, focusing on the firm's primary market data management system. This position involves enhancing systems that support the end-to-end market data lifecycle, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of market data for trading and analytical systems. The role requires a balance of tactical and strategic goals, with a strong emphasis on product ownership and technical expertise in market data or risk systems.

Responsibilities

• Enhancements to Market Data Operations: Improve systems and processes that support an end-to-end market data lifecycle, including acquisition, normalization, control, distribution, and archiving.
• Manage Data Flows: Optimize data pipelines and infrastructure to handle large volumes of market data efficiently and with minimal latency.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to onboard new market data feeds, manage existing data feeds, and resolve issues on an ongoing basis in a timely manner.
• Data Quality Assurance: Implement and maintain data quality standards and processes. Monitor data integrity and address any discrepancies or issues promptly.
• System Integration: Oversee the integration of market data with various trading platforms, analytics tools, and reporting systems.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in market data technologies.

Requirements

• Must be passionate about building mission-critical, elegantly engineered, scalable systems
• 6+ years of relevant experience
• Proficient in creating REST Web Services using C#
• Thorough understanding of asynchronous mechanisms used in modern .net development
• Experience building APIs
• Proficiency in .Net Framework, C#, WebApi, MS SQL
• Experience with Git source code management
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Must actively practice clean coding practices (SOLID, continuous refactoring, testing)
• Comfortable operating in a fast paced, Agile environment
• Fluency in operating with databases
• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with financial market data management
• Exposure to gRPC binary protocol
• Exposure to NoSQL databases
• Containerized deployments using Docker, OpenShift etc