Senior Quant C++ Engineer
2 days ago
Leeds
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 They are looking for someone with: • Strong modern C++ experience (C++17+), • 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.