C++ Engineer - Trading Infrastructure
A leading global Hedge Fund is looking to hire a C++ Engineer to join a core trading technology team responsible for the design and operation of its global electronic trading infrastructure.
The team builds and maintains ultra-low-latency systems that underpin real-time trading across global markets. You’ll work closely with developers, traders, and operations teams to optimise system behaviour, reduce latency, and ensure platform reliability at scale.
The role will:
- Develop ultra-low-latency C++ systems on Linux
- Build high-throughput, distributed systems
- Optimise networking across TCP, UDP and multicast
- Profile and benchmark systems to reduce latency and improve throughput
- Work closely with developers, traders and operations in a production trading environment
You have:
- 2+ years’ C++/C experience on Linux
- Strong multithreading and systems programming knowledge
- Understanding of TCP/UDP/multicast
- Experience with performance optimisation and tools such as gdb, perf, tcpdump and Wireshark
- Experience with epoll/io_uring, lock-free structures and concurrent programming
- Electronic trading experience is advantageous
C++ Engineer - Trading Infrastructure in Chicago at NJF Global Holdings Ltd
This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted 3 days ago.