Description The Globex Market Data team is responsible for developing applications that distribute billions of trading market data messages per day globally with the lowest possible latency. It plays a vital part in the global capital markets. The Lead Software Engineer role is responsible for working with a team of technology engineers and leading efforts and projects to drive and execute the strategy for technology advances in CME's electronic trading and market data platform. This individual is responsible for leading projects for systems that must achieve a unique blend of ultra-low latency performance, the capacity to seamlessly facilitate the busiest trading days in the world economy, rock-solid reliability and integrity and handle real-time synchronization of a geographically distributed system, all while undergoing rapid release cycles.
Responsibilities:
Defines key metrics driving code optimization and leads discussion of code reviews; manages environment build deployments, release notes and build notices; reviews code to proactively identify and mitigate potential issues and defects as well as identifies solution problems and issues outside code
Develops designs for all aspects of a project; mentors senior software engineers
Contributes to architectural discussions; interprets and enforces architecture for a development team
Influences best practices development contributing to process enhancements and enforces best practices on project work
Conducts system-wide testing and some integration testing (Junit and cucumber)
Helps with debugging/designing the automated test framework
Reviews code to proactively identify and mitigate potential issues and defects and helps to identify sources of defects
Uses design tools to frequently share and communicate design ideas on larger systems
Uses patterns frequently, contributing to best practice and process enhancements
Skills:
Experience working with high-availability, low-latency systems
Expertise working with Java, Oracle and Linux
Ability to communicate clearly in written and verbal form to both developers and business stakeholders
A passion for solving the most challenging technical problems
Ability to develop the skills of others on the team
Solid experience with networking concepts
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
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