C++ Engineer - HFT Prop Trading

Full Job Description

Our client are a technology-driven Proprietary trading firm that specializes in systematic alpha research and electronic market-making on various exchanges. This firm are relatively early in their journey with only 50 headcount, so there is huge opportunity here to make an impact on their trajectory.

On their behalf we are searching for an elite Software Engineer to join the Cambridge and/or London office to help in designing the in-house low latency software stack.

There is currently only a few people on the ground so it is completely greenfield and you would have a chance to drive the roadmap over coming years.

Work will include:

• Designing, developing, and testing proprietary software including

• Low-latency high-throughput exchange connectivity layers

• Distributed computation optimized backtesting and simulation systems capable of handling terabytes of data

Tech: C++, STL, Boost, Linux, Python

Please apply if of interest.