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Senior Software Engineer – Trading Platform, C++

A senior C++ role with management responsibility on the core infrastructure team behind a global low-latency trading platform. Work spans order routing, market data and risk systems.

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.

Develop order routing, market data and risk components in C++
Profile and tune performance across applications and Linux
Lead and mentor engineers on platform work
Collaborate with quants and researchers on platform needs

What they ask for

Required

5+ years building high-availability, low-latency C++ systems
Multithreading and hardware/software interaction
Performance tuning and troubleshooting on Linux
STL and Boost
Current C++23 knowledge
Previous management experience

Preferred

Trading or other ultra-low-latency industry experience
Working with research teams and quants
Gaming or streaming experience

Education: Not stated
Experience: 5+ years of low-latency C++ plus management experience
Languages and tools: C++

How to prepare

Build a matching engine or market-data handler in modern C++
Learn C++20/23 features useful for low-latency code
Study kernel-level tuning and network I/O
Practise explaining system design trade-offs

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