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C++ Software Engineer

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Our client a leading quantitative trading firm that is continuing to invest heavily in its engineering organization, specifically across its low-latency trading infrastructure. This team is focused on building and optimizing the core systems that power real-time trading across global markets, with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and reliability. Engineers work closely with traders and researchers to develop highly efficient, fault-tolerant systems that operate at significant scale, where even small improvements in latency or throughput can have meaningful impact. What you’ll do: • Design and optimize low-latency infrastructure for market data and order execution • Build fault-tolerant, real-time systems operating at scale • Profile and improve performance across latency-critical code paths • Work closely with traders and researchers on production systems Looking for: • Strong experience with modern C++ in performance-sensitive environments • Solid systems fundamentals (Linux, networking, CPU/memory) • Experience with low-latency or distributed systems is a plus • High ownership and strong problem-solving ability

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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