C++ Trading Developer, Quant Trading Team

Medium; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company in London seeks a skilled individual to enhance its automated trading system. Responsibilities include improving design, implementing customizable trading strategies, and collaborating with teams to automate workflows. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of C++ experience and a strong grasp of network programming. This role offers a dynamic environment focused on innovation in finance.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve the design and performance of automated trading systems.
• Implement adjustable trading strategies for live trading.
• Work closely with teams to automate trading workflows.

Skills

C++

Network programming

Concurrency

Meta-programming

Tools

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