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C++ Senior Engineer – Options Market Making Execution

A senior C++ engineering role on the execution team at an options market maker. The engineer builds low-latency trading systems alongside traders and quants.

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.

Build and tune low-latency execution engines for options trading
Reduce latency and improve P&L through performance work
Connect execution code to pricing and exchange connectivity systems
Test and harden code so trading stays operationally safe

What they ask for

Required

5+ years of production modern C++
Low-level systems programming and optimisation
Computer architecture and networking
Multithreaded and distributed systems
Fast incident triage

Preferred

High-frequency trading experience

Education: Not stated
Experience: 5+ years of production C++
Languages and tools: C++
Markets: options

How to prepare

Write a lock-free queue or order-book in modern C++ and benchmark it
Study cache behaviour, memory layout and profiling tools
Learn how market data and order protocols such as FIX work
Understand the options market-making workflow so you can talk to traders

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