Quantitative Developer

Understanding Recruitment; Dubai; On-site; AED 874,000 - 1,029,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global trading firm is seeking an experienced Quant Developer (C++) in Dubai to optimize trading strategies and maintain high-performance systems. This role involves close collaboration with traders and researchers in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should possess a strong quantitative foundation and proficiency in modern C++. Relocation and visa support are provided.

Benefits

Performance bonus

Internal fund investment

Relocation support

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative foundation including algorithms and statistics.
• Experience with high-frequency trading systems is favorable.
• Proficiency in modern C++ and performance-driven systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve performance of live trading strategies.
• Collaborate with quant researchers to develop production-ready implementations.
• Design and implement new trading strategies with low-latency execution.

Skills

Quantitative foundation: algorithms, statistics, financial math

Experience with trading systems

Proficient modern C++ (17/20)

Understanding of multithreading, concurrency

Experience with real-time monitoring tools

Networking concepts (TCP/UDP, Multicast)

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering

Job description

Role:Quant Developer (C++)

Location:On-Site in Dubai (relocation + visa is supported)

Salary:Up to $280k + performance bonus + internal fund investment

A leading global trading firm, operating high-performance systems and latency-sensitive strategies is expanding its C++ Quant Engineering Team. We’re looking for an experiencedQuant Developerto build, optimise, and maintain strategy code that powers real-time trading used by world-class traders and researchers.

This is a rare opportunity to sit directly betweenquant research, trading logic, and high-performance C++ engineering, with full ownership over production strategies that directly impact trading performance and P&L.

You’ll work in a deeply technical environment that values precision, speed, clean engineering, and tight collaboration with traders.

What You’ll Do

• Deep-dive into existing strategies and internal low-latency infrastructure
• Maintain and improve performance of live trading strategies through refactoring, profiling, and optimisation
• Collaborate with quant researchers to translate models intoproduction-ready C++ (17/20)implementations
• Design and implement new trading strategies with ultra-low-latency execution in mind
• Own latency-critical components across the stack to reduce tick-to-trade times
• Use monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) to observe live behaviour, latency, and P&L signals

The ideal candidate will:

• Have a strong quantitative foundation: algorithms, statistics, financial math, and data structures
• Bring experience with trading systems, market microstructure, or high-frequency/low-latency strategy work
• Be highly proficient withmodern C++ (17/20)and performance-driven systems engineering
• Demonstrate strong understanding ofmultithreading, concurrency, and lock-free programming
• Have experience with real-time monitoring/observability tools
• Understand networking concepts (TCP/UDP, Multicast, FIX) — a bonus
• Hold a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or similar quantitative discipline
• Show high initiative, attention to detail, and the ability to own complex systems end-to-end
• Thrive working closely with traders and researchers in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment

If this Quant Developer opportunity sounds of interest, please apply to the advert and I will be in touch!