Senior C++ Developer – HFT
Quant Capital
Overview
In this role you will design and build the trading software backbone for a fast-growing prop trading firm. You’ll work closely with research teams to implement automated electronic trading algorithms and enhance trading infrastructure at scale. The position sits in a high-tech, performance-driven environment with a strong collaboration culture and openness to learning from peers. You will contribute to expanding the research platform and supporting new exchanges and products, delivering robust, low-latency software with autonomy.
Pay / Benefits- bonus 50–100% of salary
- relocation package
- Design, engineer and implement trading software in C++ and Java
- Collaborate with research teams to architect and analyze new trading algorithms
- Build and enhance the firm’s software infrastructure for multiple business lines
- Extend proprietary research platform to support new exchanges, products and functionality
- Contribute to performance tuning, profiling and optimization of software
- Strong programming skills in C++
- Proven experience on Linux/gcc
- Experience with profiling/optimising algorithms
- Network programming, multithreaded programming, IPC
- Distributed architecture systems experience
- Autonomous working style
- Strong fundamentals of software engineering
- Able to operate across layers of abstraction
- Background in mathematics, science or computing related area (preferred)
- Experience in financial services is a plus (not essential)
- problem-solving enthusiasm
- self-motivated
- collaborative culture fit
- C++
- Java
- Linux/gcc
Reference: WJ-747_30171664