Vice President, Senior Engineer (C++)

About Us
We are a leading global financial technology company transforming how the securities finance industry trades, settles, and analyzes data. Our award-winning Trading, Post-Trade, Data & Analytics, RegTech, and SaaS solutions power efficiency, transparency, and innovation for over 200 of the world’s top financial institutions. Every month, our platform supports over $2.4 trillion in executed transactions, a testament to our technology’s impact and reliability.

With offices across North America, UK&I, and APAC, we bring together diverse teams of technologists, data experts, and business professionals who thrive on solving complex challenges at scale. We are Great Place to Work Certified™ in the US, UK, Ireland, and India and have been recognized for Diversity & Inclusion excellence as well as for being the Best Post-Trade Service Provider and Best Market Data Provider Globally (Securities Finance Times Industry Excellence Awards, 2023).

Founded in 2001 by ten of the world’s leading financial institutions, we continue to shape the future of securities finance under the majority ownership of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) alongside founding shareholders and customers including Bank of America, Bank of New York, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, National Bank of Canada, State Street, UBS and Wells Fargo.

Join us and be part of a company where global impact, innovation, and collaboration define how we work and what we build.

About the role

We are looking for an Expert C++ Engineer to join us in Bengaluru, contributing to the development of high-performance trading applications that power global securities finance markets. Our Trading Solutions team builds and maintains systems that support real-time trade execution, enabling market participants to operate with speed, accuracy, and confidence across the full trade lifecycle.

Working within a globally distributed engineering group, this role plays a key part in delivering scalable, low-latency systems that underpin critical trading workflows. The position offers the opportunity to influence system design, contribute to architectural decisions, and help evolve our platform to meet the growing demands of global markets.

What you'll do

• Design, develop and enhance high-performance trading applications using modern C++ (C++17 or later), ensuring scalability and reliability in real-time environments

• Build and maintain services deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AWS, ensuring resilience under high-volume trading conditions

• Collaborate with global engineering and product teams to define requirements and deliver scalable distributed system solutions

• Apply software engineering best practices including design patterns, efficient data structures, and performance optimisation techniques

• Produce clean, testable and maintainable code supported by code reviews and automated testing frameworks

• Support production deployments across single-tenant and multi-tenant environments, ensuring system stability and performance

• Contribute to architectural direction and continuous improvement of development standards, tooling and platform capabilities

What we're looking for

• Demonstrable experience with modern C++ (C++17 or later), including strong knowledge of STL, templates and memory management

• Proven experience working in Linux/Unix environments with a focus on multithreading and performance optimisation

• Strong understanding of distributed systems design, software architecture and engineering best practices

• Experience working with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL/MariaDB

• Familiarity with cloud-based environments, particularly AWS, and service-based architectures

• Ability to solve complex technical problems and communicate effectively within global, cross-functional teams

• Experience in financial services or other low-latency, high-performance environments is highly beneficial

• Exposure to Java or frontend technologies such as Angular or Ext JS is advantageous

• Understanding of securities finance, stock borrow loan or repo products is beneficial but not essential

Why EquiLend

• Be recognised for your contribution through a discretionary annual cash bonus, linked to individual and company performance.

• Work flexibly with up to 100 remote working days per year.

• Take time to recharge with 30 days of paid leave per year, comprising paid, casual, and sick leave, plus public holidays.

• Access comprehensive health insurance for you and your dependents from your first day.

• Receive personal accident insurance from the start of your employment.

• Connect with colleagues at an annual company-sponsored team retreat, hosted at a new location each year.

• If relocating from more than 40 miles away, receive hotel accommodation and travel ticket reimbursement

Diversity & Inclusion
At EquiLend, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is respected and valued. We believe that a variety of perspectives drives innovation and strengthens our success. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.

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