Quant jobs / Tower Research Capital

Quantitative Developer – C++

A C++ developer role on a mid-frequency trading team, improving the trading platform and research tooling. It helps make live trading more robust.

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 parts of a low-latency trading platform
Help develop a tick-by-tick backtesting platform
Optimise parallel computation on large datasets
Speed up ML-based algorithms
Build tools for historical data and simulation

What they ask for

Required

1–5 years of C++
1–2 years of Python
Data structures and algorithms
Object-oriented programming
Linux and some SQL
Independent problem solving

Education: Strong academic record; subject not stated.
Experience: 1–5 years of C++ plus 1–2 years of Python
Languages and tools: C++
Python
SQL

How to prepare

Write a tick-level backtester in C++
Practise data structures and algorithm problems
Learn multithreading and cache-friendly design
Use Linux profiling tools

What to study

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