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) settings.

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
S trong hands-on development experience in C (mandatory).
Solid 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.

📌 C Developer Technical Lead Gurugram
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