Senior Quant C++ Engineer

Currently working with a trading technology firm hiring for a Quant Developer to sit directly alongside traders and quant researchers, focused on developing and optimising ultra-low-latency trading strategies within a high-performance C++ environment.

The role is heavily engineering-focused and would suit someone who enjoys working close to the trading stack, owning and improving tick-to-trade performance, and writing production-grade modern C++ in latency-sensitive systems.

Key areas:

• Designing and optimising low-latency trading strategies
• Translating research models into production systems
• Profiling and performance optimisation across critical paths
• Multithreading, concurrency and lock-free programming
• Monitoring live systems and improving observability
• Working closely with core trading and infrastructure teams on performance improvements

They are looking for someone with:

• Strong modern C++ experience (C++17+)
• Background in performance-critical or latency-sensitive systems
• Strong systems/programming fundamentals
• Good understanding of concurrency and multithreaded architectures
• Exposure to monitoring/debugging live production systems

Nice-to-have exposure includes:

• TCP/UDP, multicast or FIX
• Trading or financial markets
• AWS/cloud research environments
• Python/Bash tooling

The environment is highly collaborative and engineering-led, with a strong focus on ownership, performance and direct impact on live trading systems.