Job Description

Job purpose

We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead with deep expertise in C programming and extensive experience building,

enhancing, and modernizing trading platforms within Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) environments. The ideal

candidate combines robust hands-on engineering capability with architecture leadership, system design expertise, and a proven track

record of optimizing high-performance, low-latency applications used by front-office trading businesses.

This role will drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, platform modernization, performance tuning, and engineering excellence

across mission-critical trading systems.

Key responsibilities

- Lead architecture, design, and development of complex trading and market-facing platforms.

- Define system architecture, scalability, resilience, and performance strategies for business-critical applications.

- Drive modernization of legacy trading systems while ensuring business continuity and platform stability.

- Partner with traders, quants, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust

technical solutions.

- Lead performance engineering initiatives including latency reduction, capacity optimization, memory management, and

concurrency design.

- Establish engineering standards, architecture principles,



design reviews, and code quality practices.

- Mentor senior developers and provide technical leadership across distributed teams.

- Support production stability, root-cause analysis, and continuous platform improvement initiatives..

Key competencies

- Strong hands-on development experience in C (mandatory).

- Strong experience in C++ and/or C# (preferred).

- Deep understanding of:

- System Design & Architecture

- Distributed Systems

- Event-Driven Architectures

- Multithreading & Concurrency

- High-Performance Computing

- Network Programming

- Memory Management & Optimization

- Performance Profiling & Latency Analysis

Domain Experience

- Strong experience within Capital Markets, preferably FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities).

- Experience working on:

- Trading Platforms

- Market Data Systems

- Order Management & Execution Systems

- Pricing & Risk Platforms

- Low-Latency Transaction Processing Systems

- Understanding of Fixed Income products, trading workflows, market data, pricing and trade lifecycle processes.

Job Snapshot

Job ID

JOB_8030

Department

Data and Technology Services

Location

Udyog Vihar Phase II, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Experience

8 - 12 Years

Employee Type

Permanent

📌 C Developer - Technical Lead (India)
🏢 Acuity Knowledge Partners
📍 India