C++ Software Engineer - High Frequency Trading

The Client

My client is a market leading high-frequency proprietary trading firm with offices across EMEA, USA, UAE and APAC.

The are looking for a Senior C++ Software Engineer to join their core engineering group.

What You'll Get

• An opportunity to work in one of the most exciting and successful high frequency trading businesses in the world.
• An opportunity to join a strong team with a very high talent density presenting lots of opportunity for learning and development.
• Incredible career progression opportunities with potential access to all areas of the business.
• A market leading compensation package including generous basic salary and annual bonus.
• Benefits including company matching 401K, private healthcare, life assurance and 25 days vacation, plus national holidays.

What You'll Do

• Architecting the trading platform to facilitate the evolving needs of trading strategies, with emphasis on market data interfaces.
• Designing and implementing a high-frequency trading platform, which includes collecting quotes and trades from and disseminating orders to exchanges around the world.
• Providing robust access to live and historical market data by leading development sprints and release cycles.
• Optimizing this platform by using network and systems programming, as well as other advanced techniques to minimize latency.
• Developing systems that provide easy access to historical market data and trading simulations.
• Creating tools to analyze data for patterns.
• Building risk-management and performance-tracking tools.

What You'll Need

• Strong academic background in STEM discipline
• Strong computer science fundamentals in Design, Algorithms & Data Structures
• Strong low latency C++ engineering skills
• Ability to multitask and produce high quality code.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.