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About the Role
Flow Traders is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to lead the architecture of market data and execution platforms. This role focuses on optimizing market data handling, order book construction, and low-latency systems for a competitive edge in systematic trading.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and global rollout of the Core market data platform.
- Design and implement high-performance components for market data ingestion, normalization, distribution, and order execution.
- Develop tools and frameworks for quants and technical traders to build and deploy systematic strategies.
- Own the full lifecycle of components: deploy, monitor, profile, and optimize code in production.
- Collaborate with engineers, quants, and traders to refine requirements and iterate on platform design.
Requirements
- BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 7+ years of post-graduation professional C++ software development experience.
- Experience building low-latency market data ingestion, order execution, and algorithmic trading systems (proprietary trading industry preferred).
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Experience in parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
- Demonstrated ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable C++ code.
- Interest in extracting maximum performance from hardware and software.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues.
Skills
- Modern C++
- OS internals
- CPU and memory architecture
- Lock-free concurrency
- Low-latency networking
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Parallel programming
- Asynchronous programming
- Multithreaded programming
- Performance optimization
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- BSc
- MSc
- PhD
About the Company
- Flow Traders is a leading global electronic market maker, providing liquidity across a wide range of financial instruments.
Equal Opportunity
- Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.