Senior Software Engineer

at  OANDA

Everyone at OANDA is focused on our vision to transform how our customers can meet all their currency needs. We are revolutionising the world of currency trading by providing innovative trading experiences, currency data and analytics solutions. Dare to be open, bold, focused - own it and apply! The future is now!

Join us and:

• Work on an award-winning platform that processes billions of dollars every day.
• Be on a team that’s responsible for company-wide top priority projects.
• Deliver reliable software on an agile team striving for continuous integration, automated testing, and code reviews.
• Leverage the latest technologies to build and deploy our trading systems.
• Become a Subject Matter Expert for C++ in our in-house trading system

How do we work?

• You’ll be joining the OANDA engineering team that owns the backend of a renowned trading platform used by our customers to analyse global currency markets and trade forex and CFDs.
• The Backend Team works with modern C++ and Python to build high performing and reliable solutions enabling our customers to trade more effectively

As a Senior Backend Engineer you will:

• Work within a Linux environment to research, design, test, implement, deploy, and maintain the backend trading and data services infrastructure applications.
• Collaborate closely with OANDA’s business and technical leadership to understand business requirements and with development team members to design and implement applications, systems, and programs.
• Identify, update, improve the existing system with new standards.
• Shepherd releases from creation to release, including maintenance and improvement of our CI/CD pipelines.
• Team mentoring.
• Joining on call support occasionally (rotation based - once per 6-7weeks).

What skillset you need, to be successful in this role:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a developer of C++ applications.
• Strong understanding of OOP, Design Patterns, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience in designing, building, improving, and operating high-performance, highly available, and scalable distributed systems in a cloud environment (GCP).
• Have the desire to develop and maintain automated tests, underlying frameworks, and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and fluency in English (written and spoken).

Nice to have:

• Experience with: Python, Kafka, Kubernetes & Docker.
• Experience in Financial Services.
• Relational database knowledge (DB2).
• Experience with Microservices architecture and Event Driven Development.

OANDA Global Corporation is a diverse and global team with offices around the world. We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to OANDA. We are committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We will work with you to provide as seamless a recruitment experience as possible.
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• Minimum 5 years of experience as a developer of C++ applications.
• Strong understanding of OOP, Design Patterns, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience in designing, building, improving, and operating high-performance, highly available, and scalable distributed systems in a cloud environment (GCP).
• Have the desire to develop and maintain automated tests, underlying frameworks, and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and fluency in English (written and spoken)