C++ Trading Developer, Quant Trading Team

Medium; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology firm based in the City Of London is seeking an experienced developer to enhance their automated trading system. You will focus on improving design, performance, and implementing adjustable trading strategies. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of experience in C++, a thorough understanding of concurrency and network programming, and familiarity with tools like Boost and MongoDB.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of working experience with C++.
• Thorough understanding of C++ memory model and best practices.
• Experience with optimisation using modern SIMD instrument set or GPU programming is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve the design and performance of the automated trading system.
• Implement highly adjustable trading strategies.
• Work closely to automate trading/reconcile/analytics workflow.
• Provide technical support for the trading system.

Skills

C++

Network programming

Concurrency

Optimisation

Tools

TCP

Websocket

Boost

ZeroMQ

MongoDB

Protobuffer

Job description

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve the design and performance of our automated trading system, including exchange connectivity, derivatives pricing model, order and risk management system.
• Implementing trading strategies which are highly adjustable in live trading and easy to integrate with backtesting system.
• Work closely with other teams to automate trading/reconcile/analytics workflow.
• Provide technical support for trading system

Requirements

• 5+ years of working experience with C++.
• Thorough understanding of C++ memory model, concurrency, meta-programming and best practices.
• Experience with network programming using TCP, Websocket
• Experience with Boost, ZeroMQ, MongoDB, Protobuffer
• Experience with optimisation using modern SIMD instrument set or GPU programming is a plus