Senior Research Platform Engineer

InfiniteQuant; Dubai; On-site; AED 367,000 - 515,000; Full time

Job summary

A proprietary trading firm in Dubai seeks a hands-on C++ developer to extend our simulation and backtesting framework across digital assets and FX. You will ensure strategy ideas move seamlessly from research to live trading while collaborating closely with researchers and traders. The ideal candidate has strong proficiency in C++, experience with pybind11, and solid Python skills, as well as a background in high-performance distributed systems. This role offers the opportunity for significant autonomy in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C++, with hands‑on experience maintaining or extending large, performance‑critical systems.
• Experience with pybind11 or equivalent Python-C++ integration frameworks.
• Solid Python skills for research pipelines, data analysis, and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend our C++ simulation/backtesting framework for both digital assets and FX.
• Implement and refine models of exchange matching engines and order queuing.
• Build and maintain pybind11 bindings for researchers to interact with the C++ simulator.

Skills

C++ proficiency

Python scripting

Debugging skills

Tools

pybind11

SQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

InfiniteQuant is a global quantitative trading and technology company.As a proprietary trading firm, we are privately owned and funded. We architect bespoke research and trading technologies to unlock infinite possibilities in the global market.

Job Description

This is a hands-on individual contributor role: you will own and extend our C++ simulation/backtesting framework across both digital assets and FX, exposing it to researchers via Python tooling. Your work ensures that strategy ideas move seamlessly from research → simulation → live trading, with accuracy and reliability. You will collaborate closely with traders, researchers, the Principal Engineer, and infra teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Simulation & Backtesting: Maintain and extend our C++ simulation/backtesting framework for both digital assets and FX, ensuring it faithfully reflects live exchange behavior.
• Matching Engine & Queuing: Implement and refine models of exchange matching engines and order queuing (FIFO, pro-rata, hidden orders, cancel/replace rules), ensuring execution simulations align with production fills.
• Python Integration: Build and maintain pybind11 bindings so researchers can interact with the C++ simulator from Python.
• Research Tooling: Develop Python scripts, data pipelines, and visualization tools that leverage the simulator for testing and analysis.
• Production Alignment: Guarantee that strategies tested in the simulator match production performance by debugging mismatches and validating data flows.
• Historical Data Handling: Work with large datasets stored on an NFS file system, building efficient indexing, access patterns, and preprocessing pipelines for researchers.
• Collaboration: Partner with researchers and traders to translate raw ideas into reproducible experiments.
• Reliability & Debugging: Investigate discrepancies between simulation, research, and production, and improve robustness of the research environment.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C++, with hands‑on experience maintaining or extending large, performance‑critical systems.
• Experience with pybind11 or equivalent Python–C++ integration frameworks.
• Solid Python skills for research pipelines, data analysis, and scripting.
• Prior work with distributed simulation or backtesting frameworks in HFT.
• Deep understanding of matching engines, order book mechanics, queuing models, and special order types (FIFO, pro-rata, priority).
• Experience working with large datasets stored in a distributed file system — building indexing, parsing, and efficient access pipelines.
• Familiarity with databases, caching, and messaging systems (SQL, Redis, Kafka) is a plus.
• Strong debugging skills across both Python and C++.
• Startup or small‑team background with high ownership.
• Familiarity with trading concepts (PnL, risk, market data, order types)

Additional Information

InfiniteQuant is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristics protected by applicable law. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented and qualified applicants from a diverse candidate pool.