C Software Engineer Market Data

Job Description

Are you looking to join a company at the forefront of innovation and transformation? Look no further than Talan!

We are seeking a self-driven Senior Market Data Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of core components of our market data stack.

This is a high-impact role with direct influence on trading outcomes through the design and delivery of performance-critical infrastructure.

You will work closely with the engineering teams to ensure our market data platform scales with business growth while maintaining the highest standards of resiliency, precision, and speed.

• Design, implement, and own high-performance market data systems, including feed handlers, order book construction, distribution frameworks, and research-facing tools and services.
• Drive exchange protocol upgrades, venue onboarding, and behavioral changes while preserving strict determinism and latency guarantees.
• Expand market and asset class coverage to support trading growth across equities, futures, options, and adjacent products.
• Continuously improve data quality, completeness, and internal consistency across the platform.
• Optimize systems for throughput, latency, and resiliency under extreme production load.
• Act as a strong production owner, independently driving projects from design through deployment and long-term operational support.
• Partner with trading and quantitative research teams to translate business requirements into robust, performant technical solutions.
• Contribute to architectural direction and raise engineering standards across the team.

• Strong hands‑on experience in modern C++ within performance‑critical systems (Currently on 20/23, starting enable 26 features)
• Deep understanding of large‑scale, real‑time, low‑latency systems, including multithreading, memory management, and networking and application performance assessment, latency analysis, profiling, OS tuning, etc.
• Experience building or maintaining market data feed handlers, order book systems, or exchange connectivity infrastructure.
• Strong debugging and problem‑solving skills in complex, real‑time production environments.
• Familiarity with exchange protocols (e.g., ITCH, PITCH, iMpact, OUCH, etc.).
• Demonstrated ownership of systems operating in production environments.
• Ability to balance performance, correctness, and maintainability in pragmatic engineering decisions.

At Talan, we invest in our employees’ well‑being and empower them with benefits, including:

• The salary range for this role is US $110,000 – US $150,000
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• 15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
• 8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
• Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
• Voluntary STD and LTD
• Commuter/transit benefits

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.