I’m working with several of the world’s leading quantitative trading firms and market makers looking to hire exceptional C++ engineers into performance-critical trading teams.
These are engineering environments where performance genuinely matters. Depending on the team, you could be working across market data, exchange connectivity, execution, order books, real-time risk or the core infrastructure underpinning automated trading.
The problems span the entire stack: application code, operating systems, networking and modern CPU architecture. Current teams across the market are working on systems processing enormous volumes of real-time market data while continuously pushing latency, throughput and reliability.
The work can include:
Designing high-performance C++ trading systems
Optimising critical paths for latency and throughput
Multithreading, concurrency and lock-free programming
Network and systems programming
CPU/cache/memory optimisation and profiling
Real-time market data and execution infrastructure
Measuring and eliminating jitter and tail latency
Taking ownership of systems running live in production
Looking for:
Excellent modern C++ and computer science fundamentals
Strong understanding of concurrency, memory and performance
Linux/systems knowledge
An interest in understanding performance all the way down to the hardware
Trading experience is useful but absolutely not essential. Some of my clients actively like engineers coming from highly technical environments outside finance.
These firms offer some of the strongest engineering problems and compensation available anywhere in software.
Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.
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Low-Latency C++ Engineer in London employer: Oxford Knight
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