Sr. Software Engineer- Low Latency

Job Title:Sr Software Engineer- Low Latency
Location:Chicago, IL – Candidates must be local and willing to work hybrid model, 2 days onsite per week.
Duration & Type:6 Month Contract
Compensation: Competitive hourly rate ($70-77/hr), Access to Healthcare, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan of Choice, and 401K

Chamberlain Advisors is currently seeking a Sr. Software Engineer – Low Latency Consultant for our direct client in the financial services industry. This is a 6 month contract position with potential for extension. The ideal candidate will engineer secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions with minimal mentoring, advancing our client’s position in the global marketplace and serving the risk management needs of customers around the world. Click apply now and join the Chamberlain experience.

What You Will Be Accountable For

• Focus on architecture and solution efficiencies; balance performance, capacity, and reliability with core system functionality.
• Identify opportunities for code optimization; provide input for code reviews and assist with environment build deployments, release notes, and build notices; proactively review code to identify and mitigate potential issues, defects, and their sources.
• Write optimized application modules and unit tests with minimal guidance; understand low-level designs and how to incorporate them into the larger application.
• Use design tools to frequently share and communicate design ideas on larger systems; leverage low-level tools such as packet capture and hardware counters to examine the system.
• Apply knowledge of modern multi-processor architecture to tune applications and systems for high throughput and low latency.
• Use design patterns frequently, contributing to best practices and process enhancements.

What Qualifications You Need

• Ability to evaluate the characteristics of algorithms and data structures for a given constraint.
• Proficiency in multi-threading, concurrent data structures, shared memory, asynchronization, JNI, NIO, HashMap, and related concepts.
• Understanding of queue theory and various designs and implementations to enhance system performance.
• Experience working with networking protocols (UDP, TCP).
• Familiarity with redundancy and fault tolerance techniques.
• Familiarity with JVM internals and garbage collection tuning.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux kernel/OS internals.

Preferred

• Experience with EF_VI, JNI, and Onload SolarFlare extension APIs.
• Demonstrated understanding of thread pinning, interrupts, isolating cores, jitter, NUMA nodes, and TLB caches.
• 4-year Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Prior experience in financial services, trading platforms, or risk management technology.

About the Client:
Mixing powerful thinking and cutting-edge technology, our client is where the world comes to manage risk. Offering the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes. They have created a marketplace for buyers and sellers bringing together individuals, companies, and institutions that need to manage risk. Our client works to serve as the counterparty to every trade that happens in our markets, to protect the integrity of our markets, and to virtually eliminate third-party credit risk. They are more than a marketplace, they are a team of groundbreakers, problem solvers, and difference makers.

Why Work with Chamberlain?
Chamberlain Advisors is a veteran-owned business that provides human capital solutions across a wide range of industries and engagement types. Chamberlain candidates benefit from our unique hiring and interviewing process which has been designed to increase the likelihood that they will be successful in their job searches. This is achieved through our 5-step recruitment process, ensuring a top-of-the-line candidate experience. Find out what makes us different; apply to Chamberlain today.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Chamberlain Advisors provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Chamberlain Advisors complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Chamberlain Advisors expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Chamberlain Advisors’ employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

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