C++ Engineer

About the role

We're hiring on behalf of a quantitative investment firm for a role building and running the systems that connect its investment strategies to live markets. Correctness and uptime aren't nice-to-haves here — the team that builds these systems also carries the pager for them. You'll work closely with researchers and engineers across the business. The right candidate owns their systems end-to-end, stays level-headed when production issues hit, communicates clearly, and doesn't cut corners on detail.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the trading infrastructure that puts the firm's strategies into live markets
• Build and run real-time services where correctness and uptime are non-negotiable
• Integrate with external exchanges, venues, and counterparties
• Take ownership of production operations — observability, alerting, and incident response

What We're Looking For

• 3–7 years' experience building production distributed systems
• Strong C++ engineer
• A track record of owning real-time, production-grade services
• Solid understanding of event-driven and distributed system design
• Real operational experience: observability, debugging under pressure, incident response
• Sharp communicator, analytically strong, detail-oriented

Bonus Points

• Experience building or operating execution platforms or OMS/EMS systems
• FIX protocol or other real-time market connectivity experience
• Familiarity with market microstructure
• Low-latency performance optimization experience