Senior Level Market Developer Jobs
Senior level market developer jobs put experienced professionals in charge of market expansion strategy, revenue ownership, and the cross-functional teams that drive growth in new and existing territories. Roles are 47% remote or hybrid, concentrated in Technology & Software, Banking & Financial Services, and Consulting & Professional Services, with employers like Five9, Intuit, and JPMorganChase hiring at this level now.
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Project description
The ideal candidate combines strong modern C++ skills with experience in market data protocols, Linux, networking, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain C++ market data feed handlers for direct exchange feeds and third-party data providers.
- Build and maintain order books, quote and trade processing, and normalized market data interfaces.
- Implement sequence tracking, gap detection, recovery, snapshot processing, and feed arbitration.
- Develop efficient subscription management and data distribution, including conflation and backpressure handling.
- Optimize latency, throughput, CPU utilization, and memory consumption under peak market conditions.
- Support trading sessions, exchange calendars, symbol mapping, trading status messages, and corporate action updates.
- Build tools for packet capture analysis, feed replay, automated testing, and production diagnostics.
- Monitor data quality, feed health, latency, and recovery performance.
- Investigate production issues and participate in the team’s production support rotation.
- Collaborate with OMS/EMS, infrastructure, QA, and client application teams on integration and delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Strong professional experience developing production systems in modern C++.
- Experience building real-time market data or other high-throughput, latency-sensitive systems.
- Strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, memory management, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience developing and debugging applications on Linux.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP multicast, socket programming, and binary protocols.
- Understanding of market data concepts, including quotes, trades, order books, sequencing, and recovery.
- Experience profiling and diagnosing performance, concurrency, and memory issues.
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Ability to investigate complex issues and communicate clearly across engineering and business teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with U.S. equities, options, or futures market data.
- Familiarity with protocols such as Nasdaq ITCH, NYSE Pillar, Cboe PITCH, CME MDP, CTA, or UTP.
- Experience with lock-free data structures, shared memory, CPU affinity, and cache-aware design.
- Familiarity with hardware timestamping, PTP, kernel bypass, or specialized network interfaces.
- Experience supporting redundant feeds, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Python or shell scripting skills for testing, analysis, and operational tooling.
- Familiarity with OMS/EMS integration and market data distribution to browser-based trading applications.
Skills
Must have
The ideal candidate combines strong modern C++ skills with experience in market data protocols, Linux, networking, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain C++ market data feed handlers for direct exchange feeds and third-party data providers.
- Build and maintain order books, quote and trade processing, and normalized market data interfaces.
- Implement sequence tracking, gap detection, recovery, snapshot processing, and feed arbitration.
- Develop efficient subscription management and data distribution, including conflation and backpressure handling.
- Optimize latency, throughput, CPU utilization, and memory consumption under peak market conditions.
- Support trading sessions, exchange calendars, symbol mapping, trading status messages, and corporate action updates.
- Build tools for packet capture analysis, feed replay, automated testing, and production diagnostics.
- Monitor data quality, feed health, latency, and recovery performance.
- Investigate production issues and participate in the team’s production support rotation.
- Collaborate with OMS/EMS, infrastructure, QA, and client application teams on integration and delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Strong professional experience developing production systems in modern C++.
- Experience building real-time market data or other high-throughput, latency-sensitive systems.
- Strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, memory management, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience developing and debugging applications on Linux.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP multicast, socket programming, and binary protocols.
- Understanding of market data concepts, including quotes, trades, order books, sequencing, and recovery.
- Experience profiling and diagnosing performance, concurrency, and memory issues.
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Ability to investigate complex issues and communicate clearly across engineering and business teams.
Nice to have
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with U.S. equities, options, or futures market data.
- Familiarity with protocols such as Nasdaq ITCH, NYSE Pillar, Cboe PITCH, CME MDP, CTA, or UTP.
- Experience with lock-free data structures, shared memory, CPU affinity, and cache-aware design.
- Familiarity with hardware timestamping, PTP, kernel bypass, or specialized network interfaces.
- Experience supporting redundant feeds, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Python or shell scripting skills for testing, analysis, and operational tooling.
- Familiarity with OMS/EMS integration and market data distribution to browser-based trading applications.
Other
Languages
English: C1 Advanced
Seniority
Senior
Location: Remote United States, United States of America
Req. VR-125945
C/C++
BCM Industry
11/11/2026
Req. VR-125945
Project description
The ideal candidate combines strong modern C++ skills with experience in market data protocols, Linux, networking, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain C++ market data feed handlers for direct exchange feeds and third-party data providers.
- Build and maintain order books, quote and trade processing, and normalized market data interfaces.
- Implement sequence tracking, gap detection, recovery, snapshot processing, and feed arbitration.
- Develop efficient subscription management and data distribution, including conflation and backpressure handling.
- Optimize latency, throughput, CPU utilization, and memory consumption under peak market conditions.
- Support trading sessions, exchange calendars, symbol mapping, trading status messages, and corporate action updates.
- Build tools for packet capture analysis, feed replay, automated testing, and production diagnostics.
- Monitor data quality, feed health, latency, and recovery performance.
- Investigate production issues and participate in the team’s production support rotation.
- Collaborate with OMS/EMS, infrastructure, QA, and client application teams on integration and delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Strong professional experience developing production systems in modern C++.
- Experience building real-time market data or other high-throughput, latency-sensitive systems.
- Strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, memory management, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience developing and debugging applications on Linux.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP multicast, socket programming, and binary protocols.
- Understanding of market data concepts, including quotes, trades, order books, sequencing, and recovery.
- Experience profiling and diagnosing performance, concurrency, and memory issues.
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Ability to investigate complex issues and communicate clearly across engineering and business teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with U.S. equities, options, or futures market data.
- Familiarity with protocols such as Nasdaq ITCH, NYSE Pillar, Cboe PITCH, CME MDP, CTA, or UTP.
- Experience with lock-free data structures, shared memory, CPU affinity, and cache-aware design.
- Familiarity with hardware timestamping, PTP, kernel bypass, or specialized network interfaces.
- Experience supporting redundant feeds, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Python or shell scripting skills for testing, analysis, and operational tooling.
- Familiarity with OMS/EMS integration and market data distribution to browser-based trading applications.
Skills
Must have
The ideal candidate combines strong modern C++ skills with experience in market data protocols, Linux, networking, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain C++ market data feed handlers for direct exchange feeds and third-party data providers.
- Build and maintain order books, quote and trade processing, and normalized market data interfaces.
- Implement sequence tracking, gap detection, recovery, snapshot processing, and feed arbitration.
- Develop efficient subscription management and data distribution, including conflation and backpressure handling.
- Optimize latency, throughput, CPU utilization, and memory consumption under peak market conditions.
- Support trading sessions, exchange calendars, symbol mapping, trading status messages, and corporate action updates.
- Build tools for packet capture analysis, feed replay, automated testing, and production diagnostics.
- Monitor data quality, feed health, latency, and recovery performance.
- Investigate production issues and participate in the team’s production support rotation.
- Collaborate with OMS/EMS, infrastructure, QA, and client application teams on integration and delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Strong professional experience developing production systems in modern C++.
- Experience building real-time market data or other high-throughput, latency-sensitive systems.
- Strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, memory management, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience developing and debugging applications on Linux.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP multicast, socket programming, and binary protocols.
- Understanding of market data concepts, including quotes, trades, order books, sequencing, and recovery.
- Experience profiling and diagnosing performance, concurrency, and memory issues.
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Ability to investigate complex issues and communicate clearly across engineering and business teams.
Nice to have
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with U.S. equities, options, or futures market data.
- Familiarity with protocols such as Nasdaq ITCH, NYSE Pillar, Cboe PITCH, CME MDP, CTA, or UTP.
- Experience with lock-free data structures, shared memory, CPU affinity, and cache-aware design.
- Familiarity with hardware timestamping, PTP, kernel bypass, or specialized network interfaces.
- Experience supporting redundant feeds, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Python or shell scripting skills for testing, analysis, and operational tooling.
- Familiarity with OMS/EMS integration and market data distribution to browser-based trading applications.
Other
Languages
English: C1 Advanced
Seniority
Senior
Location: Remote United States, United States of America
Req. VR-125945
C/C++
BCM Industry
11/11/2026
Req. VR-125945
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Senior Level Market Developer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level market developer job?
Employers at this level want candidates who have owned a market or territory end-to-end, not just executed someone else's plan. Demonstrating that you've built channel partnerships, launched into new segments, or led a team through a growth cycle is what sets applicants apart. A strong portfolio of measurable outcomes, such as revenue growth or market share gains, carries more weight than credentials alone.
Which companies hire senior level market developers?
Companies hiring senior level market developers right now include Five9, Intuit, and JPMorganChase, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level tends to come from established enterprises expanding into new regions and growth-stage companies building out their commercial functions.
Are there remote senior level market developer jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by industry and company stage. About 47% of senior level market developer openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for experienced professionals who can operate independently without on-site oversight. Field-intensive roles in distribution or industrial sectors more often require a physical presence.
What makes a market developer role senior level?
Senior level market developer roles are defined by ownership and scope. You're setting the go-to-market strategy for a region or segment, not receiving it. You're accountable for revenue targets, managing partner or customer relationships independently, and often mentoring junior team members. The work requires pattern recognition across markets and the ability to make consequential decisions with limited direction.
Which industries hire the most senior level market developers?
Senior Level market developer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Banking & Financial Services, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors invest heavily in market development at the senior level because growth through new channels, geographies, or customer segments is a core part of their competitive strategy.