At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build cutting-edge trading infrastructure with a focus on performance and low latency.
- Company: Leading multi-strategy hedge fund investing in innovative systematic trading.
- Benefits: Highly competitive compensation and the chance to shape engineering standards.
- Other info: Opportunity to influence architecture and best practices from day one.
- Why this job: Be a founding engineer and make a direct impact on a new trading platform.
- Qualifications: 2-15 years of C++ experience in trading or performance-critical environments.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 120000 £ per year.
A leading multi-strategy hedge fund is making a substantial investment in systematic trading and is building a new C++ engineering team from first principles. This is a genuine greenfield build: no legacy architecture, no inherited technical debt, and the opportunity to define the core trading infrastructure, engineering standards, and technology stack that will underpin the firm's systematic trading ambitions.
You will work directly with a hiring manager whose background spans HFT, ultra-low-latency systems, kernel optimisation, network infrastructure, and exchange connectivity.
The OpportunityYou will be responsible for designing and building the performance-critical infrastructure that powers the firm's next-generation systematic trading platform, including:
- Ultra-low-latency trading and execution systems
- Market data handlers, feed processing, and normalisation pipelines
- Exchange connectivity, order gateways, and routing infrastructure
- High-performance distributed systems
- Event-driven architectures operating under strict latency constraints
- Performance-sensitive C++ components where microseconds directly impact outcomes
- 2-15 years of C++ engineering experience in a trading or performance-critical environment
- Experience within HFT, electronic trading, market making, systematic trading, or other latency-sensitive domains
- Strong understanding of Linux internals, multithreading, concurrency, memory management, and performance optimisation
- Expertise in low-latency systems, kernel-level development, network optimisation, market data, or exchange connectivity
- Demonstrated tenure and track record within leading technology or quantitative trading organisations
- Join as a founding engineer in a newly established systematic trading technology function
- Build a platform from scratch rather than maintaining legacy systems
- Influence architecture, tooling, infrastructure, and engineering best practices from day one
- Direct impact on a major strategic growth area for the business
- Highly competitive compensation package.
