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Senior Developer – Core Trading Technology

A low-latency C++ engineering role on the team that runs the firm's global electronic trading infrastructure. The work is about speed, determinism and reliability of real-time trading 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.

Write and tune low-latency C++ trading components on Linux
Diagnose latency problems using packet captures, profilers and core dumps
Benchmark critical paths and cut latency or raise throughput
Debug issues in live trading environments with traders and operations
Design distributed real-time systems for global markets

What they ask for

Required

5+ years of C++ on Linux, including modern C++ and multithreading
TCP, UDP and multicast networking
High-throughput distributed systems in production
Scalable I/O models and lock-free structures
Debugging and profiling tools such as gdb, perf and tcpdump
Ownership from problem to solution

Preferred

Python or Bash scripting
CI/CD or observability tooling
Exposure to electronic trading or exchange-facing systems

Education: No education requirement stated
Experience: 5+ years professional C++/C on Linux
Languages and tools: C++
C
Python
Bash

How to prepare

Write a lock-free queue and measure its latency distribution under contention
Learn epoll or io_uring and capture and read packet traces with Wireshark
Study multicast market data feeds and how gaps are detected
Profile a C++ program with perf and fix the top hotspot

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