C++ Engineer - London- Global Quant Firm

Global Ltd
London, UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
£200,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

JavaScript (Programming Language) Software Applications C++ (Programming Language) Code Review Linux Python (Programming Language) Qt (Software) System Programming TypeScript Web Applications ReactJS Production Code

Job description

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for an expert C++ engineer to join their core UI team. Their projects include applications for real-time trading and generation of information-rich visualizations based on archived data.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. This team serves the UI needs across the business, and this role will involve writing highly optimized code for high-performance back-ends running on Linux to process huge amounts of data. There will also be an opportunity to do full-stack work, contributing to the C++ front-end code for Qt desktop applications, as well as Typescript/React for web applications.

Here, technology is viewed as key to their continued success. The successful C++ Engineer will be passionate about development, have a strong work ethic and be motivated to continually learn and improve.

Requirements

  • Minimum 4+ years’ modern C++ development experience (C++ 11/14/17/20)
  • Solid experience of Linux and low-level systems programming
  • Knowledge of and ability to develop scalable back-end services
  • Skilled at writing reliable code, and providing code review feedback to others
  • Bonus points for any of: Typescript/Javascript, React, Qt, Python

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive base salary + bonus
  • They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
  • Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
  • Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
  • Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.

Andy Stirling-Martin

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