C++ Software Engineer
$85k - $125kFull-time
Fintal Partners
Salary: $85,000 - 125,000 per year Requirements:
- Strong experience with modern C++ in performance-sensitive environments
- Solid systems fundamentals, including Linux, networking, CPU, and memory
- Experience with low-latency or distributed systems is a plus
- Strong ownership and problem-solving ability
- Design and optimize low-latency infrastructure for market data and order execution
- Build fault-tolerant, real-time systems that operate at scale
- Profile and improve performance across latency-critical code paths
- Collaborate with traders and researchers on production systems
- Linux
- C++
More:
Our client is a leading quantitative trading firm continuing to invest in its engineering organization, particularly its low-latency trading infrastructure. The team builds and optimizes core systems powering real-time trading across global markets, emphasizing performance, scalability, and reliability. Engineers work closely with traders and researchers to develop efficient, fault-tolerant systems at significant scale, where improvements in latency or throughput can have a meaningful impact.
last updated 42 week of 2026
Vacancy posted 1 day ago
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