Quant jobs / BAH Partners

Senior C++ Developer – Low Latency Trading Infrastructure

A recruiter advertises low-latency C++ mandates at several unnamed trading firms. The roles build market-data, execution and exchange-connectivity systems on live trading paths.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Implement performance-critical C++ trading components.
Profile memory, concurrency and networking bottlenecks.
Improve exchange gateways and order-flow reliability.

What they ask for

Required

Modern C++
Linux systems knowledge
Memory and concurrency design
Latency-sensitive production experience

Preferred

Trading, market-data or exchange-connectivity background

Education: No degree requirement stated.
Experience: At least 5 years using modern C++.
Languages and tools: C++
Linux
Markets: multi-asset, crypto

How to prepare

Benchmark tail latency in a market-data processing loop.
Compare memory layouts and concurrency designs.
Build an exchange-gateway simulator with failure tests.

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with BAH Partners and doesn’t handle applications.