Quantitative Technologist (Full-Time – C++ Developer)
A full-time C++ developer role improving live trading systems and research infrastructure at a proprietary trading firm. New joiners get starter projects and can own tools within their first few months.
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.
- Complete a starter C++ project that improves a trading or research system
- Push production code daily within a review process
- Improve machine learning and simulation infrastructure over petabyte-scale data
- Take ownership of a tool or process within the first few months
What they ask for
Required
- C or C++
- Data structures and algorithmic complexity
- Numerical algorithms
- Distributed systems
- Large code base experience
- Production deployment
- Education
- Not stated.
- Experience
- Experience level not stated; starter projects provided
- Languages and tools
How to prepare
- Write a modern C++ trading-system component with benchmarks
- Study algorithmic complexity and numerical methods
- Learn about distributed systems and messaging
- Practise code review and release workflows on a shared project
What to study
- Modern C++ for Quantitative Finance
- Trading Systems and Low-Latency Infrastructure
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Professional Quant Practice
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Radix Trading and doesn’t handle applications.