Electronic Market Making C++ Developer – Equities
Despite the trader-style title, this is a low-latency C++ engineering role in the Electronic Market Making Engineering team. You build systems for pricing, execution, risk controls and market connectivity.
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 C++ market data handlers, execution gateways and pricing engines
- Profile latency and improve critical trading components
- Add exchange connectivity and support new market structure features
- Build monitoring tools for system health and operational risk
- Diagnose and fix production issues
What they ask for
Required
- Modern C++ (14/17/20)
- Data structures, algorithms and concurrency
- Low-latency distributed systems
- Linux and networking fundamentals
- Performance optimisation
- Production debugging
Preferred
- Market-making or exchange connectivity experience
- Lock-free programming and profiling
- Python for tooling
- Derivatives and pricing knowledge
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in computer science, engineering, maths, physics or similar
- Experience
- Senior Associate/VP level; years not stated
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities, futures
How to prepare
- Write a limit order book in C++ and benchmark its throughput and latency
- Learn lock-free queues and cache-aware design, and measure the effect
- Study exchange protocols such as FIX and binary feeds
- Profile a toy market data handler with perf or similar tools on Linux
What to study
- Modern C++ for Quantitative Finance
- Trading Systems and Low-Latency Infrastructure
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Python and Data Primer
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