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# Senior Quant C++ Engineer

- **Company:** Harrington Starr
- **Location:** Liverpool, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithmic Trading, Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, C++ (Programming Language), Profiling, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Multicasting, Performance Tuning, Multithreading, Concurrency, Low Latency
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/senior-quant-c-engineer-liverpool/2775926115-2/

## About the Role

* Background in performance-critical or latency-sensitive systems
 * Strong systems/programming fundamentals
 * Good understanding of concurrency and multithreaded architectures
 * Exposure to monitoring/debugging live production systems

Nice-to-have exposure includes:

 * TCP/UDP, multicast or FIX
 * Trading or financial markets
 * AWS/cloud research environments
 * Python/Bash tooling

The environment is highly collaborative and engineering-led, with a strong focus on ownership, performance and direct impact on live trading systems.

## Description

Currently working with a trading technology firm hiring for a Quant Developer to sit directly alongside traders and quant researchers, focused on developing and optimising ultra-low-latency trading strategies within a high-performance C++ environment.

The role is heavily engineering-focused and would suit someone who enjoys working close to the trading stack, owning and improving tick-to-trade performance, and writing production-grade modern C++ in latency-sensitive systems.

Key areas:

 * Designing and optimising low-latency trading strategies
 * Translating research models into production systems
 * Profiling and performance optimisation across critical paths
 * Multithreading, concurrency and lock-free programming
 * Monitoring live systems and improving observability
 * Working closely with core trading and infrastructure teams on performance improvements


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