Senior C++ Engineer

Senior C++ Engineer

Location: x3 days onsite

Salary: £95,000 + bonus

Overview
Senior C++ Engineer needed to work on high-performance trading and analytics systems in a low-latency environment. This is a hands-on role focused on building, optimising and stabilising mission-critical platforms used across the business.

You'll work close to production systems, taking ownership of complex technical issues including crash investigation, deep debugging and performance optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency C++ applications with a strong focus on performance and resilience
• Own production issues including crash analysis, memory corruption and runtime failures
• Perform deep debugging (call stacks, disassembly, dump analysis) and deliver long-term fixes
• Optimise multi-threaded, Real Time systems
• Contribute to technical design decisions and code reviews
• Mentor junior engineers and raise engineering standards
• Work closely with QA, DevOps and business stakeholders

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial C++ experience (C+/14/17)
• Background in low-latency, high-throughput systems (finance/trading preferred)
• Deep knowledge of modern C++: memory management, concurrency, STL, templates
• Strong debugging skills (crash dumps, memory leaks, runtime analysis)
• Experience with Windows internals and tooling (eg WinDbg, Visual Studio)
• Solid understanding of multi-threading and performance optimisation
• Git, CI/CD, testing practices

Nice to Have

• Advanced Windows internals or disassembly-level debugging
• Messaging systems (Kafka, ZeroMQ, Solace)
• Distributed systems or cloud exposure
• Python or C# Scripting
• Trading systems or market data experience

If this sounds like the role for you, hit APPLY & a consultant will be in touch.