Quantitative Developer / C++ Trading Systems Engineer

You’ll design, build and enhance the team’s core trading technology, with a particular focus on low-latency, real-time C++ systems.

Responsibilities will include:

• Building latency-sensitive trading systems from market data ingestion through to order execution
• Productionising performance-critical signal computation
• Developing infrastructure supporting systematic research, including replay and data management
• Building and supporting execution workflows across Futures, FX and Fixed Income
• Working on real-time, concurrent systems used directly in live trading
• Improving monitoring, controls and operational robustness
• Supporting deployment and production processes for live strategies
• Integrating with established execution, risk, portfolio management, data and monitoring platforms

• 5+ years’ experience building production systems within electronic or systematic trading
• Excellent C++, ideally within a performance-critical or low-latency environment
• Strong experience with production trading systems, particularly market data and/or order-entry infrastructure
• Deep understanding of concurrency, real-time systems and performance optimisation
• Strong Linux development experience
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals across testing, version control and code quality
• Experience across Futures, FX and/or Fixed Income is particularly relevant
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics or another quantitative discipline

Particularly Relevant Experience

Candidates coming from low-latency execution, algorithmic trading, systematic trading infrastructure or front-office quantitative development backgrounds will be particularly well aligned.

Experience supporting live trading systems, implementing production controls, and integrating with larger institutional technology platforms would also be highly valuable.

A leading global investment firm is looking for an experienced Quantitative Developer / Trading Systems Engineer to join a high-performing systematic trading team in London.