Quant jobs / Wolverine Trading

Senior C++ Software Engineer – Trading Platforms

A senior engineering role owning core C++ applications that power the firm's trading business. You work directly with traders and quant researchers on performance-sensitive 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.

Own and extend C++ applications that sit at the heart of the trading platform
Profile and tune throughput, latency and stability
Turn trader and researcher requests into robust software
Improve code review, testing and release practices

What they ask for

Required

Modern C++ (C++17 or later)
Data structures, algorithms and memory management
Multi-threading and concurrency
Performance tuning in latency-sensitive systems
3+ years professional C++
Computer science or related degree

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

How to prepare

Write and benchmark a small multi-threaded C++17 service and profile it with perf or similar tools
Study lock-free structures, cache behaviour and memory allocation
Read how a simple order management system is structured
Practise explaining performance trade-offs clearly

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 Wolverine Trading and doesn’t handle applications.