Backend Developer job opportunity at Absa.



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Absa Backend Developer
Experience: Highly Experienced
Pattern: full-time
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degreeBachelor's (B.A.)
loacation Main Point Pankrac, Czechia
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Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. My Career Development Portal : Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility. Job Summary We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Developer with strong C++ expertise to join our core engineering team and help build and evolve a multi-asset, ultra-low latency trading platform. You will work on performance-critical systems that process real-time market data and order flows across multiple venues and asset classes (Equities, FX, Derivatives). This is a hands-on engineering role focused on deterministic performance, reliability, and clean architecture. If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges with real-time performance requirements, this role is for you. Job Description Design and implement low-latency trading components in modern C++ (C++17/20+) Build high-performance market data handlers and order gateways (FIX / binary protocols) Optimize latency, throughput, and memory footprint under heavy load Develop real-time risk checks and pre-trade validation modules Contribute to order management, smart order routing, and execution logic Improve resiliency, failover, and high-availability architecture Participate in performance profiling, benchmarking, and system tuning Collaborate with quant, infrastructure, and DevOps teams   Who you Are - Passionate about performance and clean code - Comfortable working close to hardware and OS internals - Analytical and detail-oriented - Able to balance correctness, latency, and maintainability - Motivated by solving complex distributed systems problems   What we expect Strong expertise in modern C++ (C++17/20 or later) Deep understanding of: Multithreading and concurrency Lock-free / wait-free programming Memory management and cache optimization Network programming (TCP/UDP, multicast) Knowledge of Linux internals Strong debugging skills and attention to performance details   Nice to have: Financial experience FIX protocol Exchange binary protocols Market data feed handlers Smart order routing Risk engines FPGA integration Experience with PostgresSQL or high-performance data stores Other languages (C#, Python), familiarity with messaging libraries (Solace) Strong communication skills. Good command of English is needed, to work effectively in a multinational company. Education Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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