Quant Dev (C++) — Build Low-Latency Trading Algorithms

QuanTech Partners; Dubai; On-site; AED 380,000 - 620,000; Full time

Job summary

QuanTech Partners is seeking a Quant Developer to join its Market Making team. You will own the full lifecycle of algorithm development—from research tooling and back-testing to optimized, production-grade C++ running in live markets.

You will collaborate with traders and engineers, building scalable, low-latency systems and contributing to market microstructure understanding through hands-on development and testing.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a development role within capital markets.
• Strong modern C++ (C++17/20) with a focus on performance and production-quality code.
• Hands-on experience with order books and market depth data.
• Solid version control and CI/CD experience (Git, Azure DevOps or similar).
• A rigorous approach to unit and integration testing (GoogleTest, Catch2).
• A BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field.
• Fluent English, and a curious, autonomous, problem-solving approach with strong team spirit.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy trading algorithms and the research workflow and tools that support them.
• Build and run back-testing frameworks to take strategies from idea to live trading.
• Create scalable, standardised solutions in partnership with the trading team.
• Write high-performance, low-latency C++ and drive extensive testing and optimisation to production standard.
• Uphold engineering best practice across the full SDLC — code review, testing, CI/CD and documentation.
• Improve compute capability through continual infrastructure development.

Skills

C++ (modern)

Market data

Unit testing

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Autonomous learning

Education

BSc/MSc in CS or Math

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

GoogleTest

Catch2

Linux

Job description

QuanTech Partners is seeking a Quant Developer to join its Market Making team. You will own the full lifecycle of algorithm development—from research tooling and back-testing to optimized, production-grade C++ running in live markets.

You will collaborate with traders and engineers, building scalable, low-latency systems and contributing to market microstructure understanding through hands-on development and testing.