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# Senior C++ Low-Latency Developer

- **Company:** C&d Talent Advisory
- **Location:** Birmingham, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £200,000.0 - £300,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Algorithmic Trading, Application Performance Management, C++ (Programming Language), Communications Protocols, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, High-Frequency Trading, Multicasting, Performance Tuning, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Concurrency, Build Management, Low Latency, Build Tools, C++14
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5854877273

## About the Role

* Approximately 6+ years of professional C++ engineering experience
 * Genuine production experience building low-latency systems
 * Strong expertise in C++17 or newer, with C++20 strongly preferred
 * Excellent understanding of modern C++ fundamentals and performance characteristics
 * Strong computer science fundamentals
 * Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, and complexity
 * Experience designing high-performance or distributed systems
 * Strong knowledge of networking and communication protocols
 * Experience with latency optimization and performance tuning
 * Production experience within traditional financial markets
 * Background in a proprietary trading firm, market maker, hedge fund, investment bank, or comparable electronic-trading environment
 * Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
 * Ability to operate independently in technically demanding environments

Particularly valuable experience

 * Direct market-data engineering experience
 * Feed-handler or ticker-plant development
 * Electronic or automated trading systems
 * Exchange connectivity
 * FIX or ITCH protocols
 * Order-book infrastructure
 * Smart order routing
 * Tick-to-trade optimization
 * Lock-free programming
 * Kernel-bypass networking
 * Solarflare / Onload
 * DPDK
 * NUMA-aware architecture
 * Cache-aware system design
 * High-availability and failover systems
 * Idempotency and ACID guarantees

Strongly preferred background

 * Proprietary trading
 * Market making
 * High-frequency trading
 * Systematic hedge funds
 * Investment-bank electronic trading
 * Production market-data infrastructure
 * Performance-critical financial systems

## Description

* Design and build low-latency distributed systems for financial market data
 * Develop performance-critical components using modern C++
 * Own architecture, implementation, testing, optimization, and deployment
 * Build systems supporting high-throughput and latency-sensitive workloads
 * Optimize application performance across CPU, memory, networking, and concurrency
 * Work with TCP, UDP, multicast, messaging, queuing, and Pub/Sub architectures
 * Translate complex or ambiguous requirements into practical engineering solutions
 * Balance rapid delivery with production-grade reliability and scalability
 * Build comprehensive unit, integration, end-to-end, stress, and performance tests
 * Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle


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