C++ Software Engineer (Chicago)
Full-time
Fintal Partners
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 1 day ago
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