C/Unix Programmer

Waterfront International is a Toronto-based financial consulting firm, specializing in developing computer based statistical trading strategies. Waterfront’s selective hiring process considers only highly talented individuals with a history of exceptional professional and academic achievement, and solid real-world experience.

Join our team developing and administering leading edge, non-stop, global 24x7 financial trading systems. We develop real-time trading applications utilizing the latest Sun hardware, software, and libraries (including UltraSparc III servers, Solaris 8, Forte 6.1, Sybase, and Tibco). You will work with a small but demanding group of technical and non-technical users. Our growing team seeks a highly talented C/Unix/X Window programmer to work on components of our trading systems – enhancing the existing systems, developing real-time GUI displays and directly supporting technical and non-technical users.

This is not a traditional development environment. Our goal is to get from idea to implementation as quickly as possible, while maintaining high quality and reliability. Developers typically work independently on a mix of short term (1-2 days), mid term (1-3 week) and long term (1-6 month) projects. To work in this fast paced, dynamic, and demanding environment you must be an exceptional C/Unix programmer.

Primary Responsibilities:
·Developing real-time, X Window GUI displays for financial trading systems using C in a Unix environment.
·Working with distributed, multithreaded systems.
·Developing new software as well as enhancing existing systems.
·Fast paced development environment.
·A very technical role - 10% analysis, 90% programming.

Essential skills:
·C/Unix Programming.
·X Window programming using Motif or GTK+.
·Unix programming.
·Multithreaded programming.

Requirements of the Candidate include:
·5+ years of professional C programming experience in a UNIX environment.
·Programming experience with X Window (Motif or GTK+) and multithreaded technologies.
·Comfortable with programming in a production environment.
·Experience with large projects.
·Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or closely related field.
·Stable career history.
·Excellent communication skills.
·Experience with Tibco/Rendezvous a plus.


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