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Software Developer, C++ | Singapore- Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm

A recruiter advertises a C++ role at an unnamed proprietary trading firm. The engineer develops high-throughput trading and research systems and improves computational performance.

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 components that process exchange quotes and trades.
Improve parallel research and machine-learning computations.
Optimise throughput and latency in the trading platform.

What they ask for

Required

C++
Python
Data structures and algorithms
Linux and SQL
Object-oriented design

Education: No degree requirement stated.
Experience: At least 5 years using C++ and 3 years using Python.
Languages and tools: C++
Python
Java
Linux
SQL

How to prepare

Build a market-data processing component and benchmark its tail latency.
Profile a parallel research workload for bottlenecks.
Compare data structures under realistic trading update rates.

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