HPR Sr. Software Engineer reviews

Customers are Wall St hedge funds, product is an FPGA based gateway for pre-trade risk analysis. Well designed software, written following Linux philosophy - C not C++, everything developed in-house, minimum open source. Software is optimized for high performance using classic techniques.- core pinning, lock free queues, poll loops, state machines. Code style is uniform, engineers are easily able to dive into any other component and readily understand it. CEO is software architect and has very strict requirements for how software is written. This is a blessing, and a difficulty, since, at times, it is hard to advance projects unless he has time to review the fine print (or until the VPs and directors bring him in for low level technical discussions). Company hires many out-of-school engineers, who are knowledgeable, enthusiastic and nice. Coworkers are uniformly 5 stars. A few senior engineers but top at their job. Excellent business setup - fee based support contracts with banks who bake the HPR developed infrastructure into their daily needs. Banks would not be able to easily swap product out - and usually do not have the engineering strength to develop internally a product as good as HPRs.

The team dynamic at HPR is very unusual. Everyone is committed and helpful - I felt at home from my first day. The work is very deep especially if you like seeing all of the layers - hardware-software, etc.