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Senior C++ Software Engineer – Real Time Trading

A senior engineer building the low-latency market data, exchange connectivity and order execution components of a trading firm. You work alongside traders, FPGA engineers and infrastructure teams.

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.

Speed up market data handlers and order execution paths
Connect the firm's systems to new exchanges and markets
Tune performance from application code down to network and OS behaviour
Support production systems around the clock as they run live

What they ask for

Required

Expert modern C++ (C++17 or later)
Memory hierarchy and CPU architecture
Lock-free programming
TCP/UDP networking
3+ years professional C++
Computer science or related degree

Preferred

Low-latency or real-time experience from any industry

Education: Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, computer engineering or similar
Experience: 3+ years of professional C++; no trading experience required
Languages and tools: C++

How to prepare

Build a UDP market data feed handler in C++ with a lock-free queue and measure its latency
Study CPU caches, false sharing and kernel bypass networking basics
Learn the structure of exchange binary protocols and order entry
Use a profiler to find and fix a real bottleneck in your own code

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