We are partnering with a leading buy-side investment firm seeking a highly skilled C++ Engineer to join their front-office trading technology team. This role will focus on building and enhancing low-latency trading infrastructure, market connectivity, and real-time market data systems that directly support trading and investment activities across global markets.
This is an opportunity to work in a high-performance engineering environment with close interaction across trading, quantitative research, and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance C++ applications supporting electronic trading and market data platforms.
- Build and support low-latency exchange connectivity and market access solutions across multiple venues and asset classes.
- Develop and optimise real-time market data systems, including feed handlers, normalisation layers, and data distribution services.
- Work closely with traders and quantitative teams to improve trading infrastructure performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Enhance trading platform resiliency, monitoring, and operational tooling across Linux-based environments.
- Contribute to the architecture and optimisation of high-throughput distributed systems.
- Participate in troubleshooting and performance analysis of latency-sensitive production systems.
- Support automation initiatives and tooling using Python where appropriate.
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience developing in modern C++ within a trading, market data, or low-latency systems environment.
- Solid Python skills for scripting, tooling, automation, or operational support tasks.
- Deep understanding of Linux systems engineering and performance tuning.
- Experience working with:
- Real-time market data feeds
- Exchange connectivity and order routing
- TCP/UDP multicast networking
- Low-latency or high-throughput systems
- Strong knowledge of multithreaded and concurrent programming concepts.
- Experience debugging and optimising production systems in mission-critical environments.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and systems architecture.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced front-office environment.
Desirable Experience
- Exposure to buy-side trading environments, systematic trading, or electronic execution platforms.
- Experience with market protocols such as FIX, OUCH, ITCH, or binary exchange protocols.
- Familiarity with tick plant architecture and time-series data systems.
- Knowledge of performance profiling, kernel bypass networking, or hardware acceleration techniques.
- Experience working with cloud or containerised infrastructure is beneficial.
- Understanding of Equities, Futures, FX, or Derivatives markets would be advantageous.